Ezekiel 32:3

The Lord Yahweh says this: 1 So I will spread my net over you in the assembly of many peoples, and they will lift you up in my net. 1

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In The King James Version

Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will therefore spread out my net over thee with a company of many people; and they shall bring thee up in my net.

In Context

2“Son of man, lift up a lament concerning Pharaoh the king of Egypt; say to him, 'You are like a young lion among the nations, 1 but you are like a monster in the seas; you churn up the water, 1 you stir up the waters with your feet and muddy their waters.

4I will abandon you in the land. I will throw you into a field 1 and cause all the birds of the heavens to settle on you; the hunger of all living animals on earth will be satisfied by you. 1

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Cross References

Ecclesiastes 9:12Surely, no one knows when his time will come. 2 As fish are caught in a deadly net, 2 or birds are caught in a snare, 1 the children of human beings are ensnared by evil times 2 that suddenly fall upon them.

Lamentations 1:13It is from on high that he has sent fire into my bones, and it has conquered them. 1 He has spread a net for my feet and turned me back. 1 He has made me constantly desolate and weak. 1

Ezekiel 17:20I will spread my net out over him, and he will be caught in my hunting net. Then I will bring him to Babylon and execute judgment on him there for his treason that he committed when he betrayed me!

Habakkuk 1:14You make men like fish in the sea, like creeping things without a ruler over them. 1

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 32:2-17

The Fall of Egypt; Lamentation for Pharaoh. ( b. c. 587.) 1 And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers. 3 Thus saith the Lord God ; I will therefore… Read the whole commentary →

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