Ezekiel 32:3
Thus says the Lord GOD; I will therefore spread my net over you with a company of many people; and they shall bring you up in my net.
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Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts
This is what the Lord GOD says: 'I will spread my net over you with a vast assembly of many peoples, and they will draw you up in my dragnet.
King James Version 1769 (Standard 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.
American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers
Thus saith{H559} the Lord{H136} Jehovah:{H136} I will spread out{H6566} my net{H7568} upon thee with a company{H6951} of many{H7227} peoples;{H5971} and they shall bring thee up{H5927} in my net.{H2764}
King James Version with Strong's Numbers
Thus saith{H559}{(H8804)} the Lord{H136} GOD{H3069}; I will therefore spread out{H6566}{(H8804)} my net{H7568} over thee with a company{H6951} of many{H7227} people{H5971}; and they shall bring thee up{H5927}{(H8689)} in my net{H2764}.
Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thus sayeth the LORDE God: I wil sprede my net ouer ye, namely, a greate multitude of people: these shal dryue the into my yarne,
Geneva Bible (1560)
Thus sayth the Lord God, I will therefore spread my net ouer thee with a great multitude of people, and they shall make thee come vp into my net.
Bishops' Bible (1568)
Thus saith the Lorde God, I wyll spreade my nette ouer thee with a great multitude of people, these shal make thee come vp into my net.
Authorized King James Version (1611)
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.
Webster's Bible (1833)
Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will spread out my net on you with a company of many peoples; and they shall bring you up in my net.
Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)
Thus said the Lord Jehovah: And -- I have spread out for thee My net, With an assembly of many peoples, And they have brought thee up in My net.
American Standard Version (1901)
Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will spread out my net upon thee with a company of many peoples; and they shall bring thee up in my net.
American Standard Version (1901)
Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will spread out my net upon thee with a company of many peoples; and they shall bring thee up in my net.
Bible in Basic English (1941)
This is what the Lord has said: My net will be stretched out over you, and I will take you up in my fishing-net.
World English Bible (2000)
Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will spread out my net on you with a company of many peoples; and they shall bring you up in my net.
NET Bible® (New English Translation)
“‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says:“‘I will throw my net over you in the assembly of many peoples; and they will haul you up in my dragnet.
Referenced Verses
- Ezek 12:13 : 13 My net also I will spread upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare: and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet he shall not see it, though he shall die there.
- Ezek 17:20 : 20 And I will spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, and will contend with him there for his trespass which he has trespassed against me.
- Hos 7:12 : 12 When they go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down like the birds of the sky; I will chastise them, as their congregation has heard.
- Hab 1:14-17 : 14 You make men like the fish of the sea, like creeping things that have no ruler over them. 15 They take up all of them with a hook, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their dragnet; therefore they rejoice and are glad. 16 Therefore they sacrifice to their net, and burn incense to their dragnet; because by them their portion is sumptuous and their food plentiful. 17 Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?
- Eccl 9:12 : 12 For man also does not know his time: as the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in a snare, so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly upon them.
- Jer 16:16 : 16 Behold, I will send for many fishermen, says the LORD, and they shall fish them; and afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.
- Lam 1:13 : 13 From above he has sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them: he has spread a net for my feet, he has turned me back: he has made me desolate and faint all the day.
Similar Verses (AI)
These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.
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20 And I will spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, and will contend with him there for his trespass which he has trespassed against me.
- Ezek 32:4-52 verses80%
4 Then will I leave you upon the land, I will cast you out upon the open field, and will cause all the birds of the sky to remain upon you, and I will fill the beasts of the whole earth with you.
5 And I will lay your flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with your height.
- Ezek 29:3-53 verses80%
3 Speak, and say, Thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lies in the midst of his rivers, which has said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself.
4 But I will put hooks in your jaws, and I will cause the fish of your rivers to stick to your scales, and I will bring you up out of the midst of your rivers, and all the fish of your rivers shall stick to your scales.
5 And I will leave you thrown into the wilderness, you and all the fish of your rivers: you shall fall upon the open fields; you shall not be brought together, nor gathered: I have given you as food to the beasts of the field and to the birds of the sky.
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5 It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea, for I have spoken it, says the Lord GOD; and it shall become a spoil to the nations.
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2 Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him, You are like a young lion of the nations, and you are like a whale in the seas; and you came forth with your rivers, and troubled the waters with your feet, and fouled their rivers.
- Ezek 12:13-142 verses76%
13 My net also I will spread upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare: and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet he shall not see it, though he shall die there.
14 And I will scatter toward every wind all who are around him to help him, and all his bands; and I will draw out the sword after them.
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12 When they go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down like the birds of the sky; I will chastise them, as their congregation has heard.
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2 The Lord GOD has sworn by his holiness, that, behold, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your descendants with fishhooks.
- Ezek 32:8-136 verses76%
8 All the bright lights of the sky will I make dark over you, and set darkness upon your land, says the Lord GOD.
9 I will also trouble the hearts of many people, when I bring your destruction among the nations, into the countries which you have not known.
10 Yes, I will make many people amazed at you, and their kings shall be horribly afraid for you, when I brandish my sword before them; and they shall tremble every moment, every man for his own life, in the day of your fall.
11 For thus says the Lord GOD; The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon you.
12 By the swords of the mighty will I cause your multitude to fall, the terrible of the nations, all of them: and they shall plunder the pomp of Egypt, and all its multitude shall be destroyed.
13 I will destroy also all its beasts from beside the great waters; neither shall the foot of man trouble them anymore, nor the hooves of beasts trouble them.
- Hab 1:15-173 verses75%
15 They take up all of them with a hook, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their dragnet; therefore they rejoice and are glad.
16 Therefore they sacrifice to their net, and burn incense to their dragnet; because by them their portion is sumptuous and their food plentiful.
17 Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?
- Ezek 39:4-52 verses75%
4 You shall fall upon the mountains of Israel, you and all your troops, and the people that are with you: I will give you to the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 You shall fall upon the open field, for I have spoken it, says the Lord GOD.
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46 For thus says the Lord GOD; I will bring up a company against them, and will give them to be removed and plundered.
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8 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring a sword upon you, and cut off man and beast from you.
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17 Behold, the LORD will carry you away with a mighty captivity, and will surely cover you.
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14 And I will make you like the top of a rock; you shall be a place to spread nets upon; you shall be built no more; for I the LORD have spoken it, says the Lord GOD.
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34 And I will bring you out from the people, and will gather you out of the countries where you are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out.
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19 For thus says the Lord GOD: When I shall make you a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited, when I shall bring up the deep upon you, and great waters shall cover you,
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4 And I will turn you back, and put hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you forth, and all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armor, a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
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3 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against you, O Tyre, and will cause many nations to come up against you, as the sea causes its waves to come up.
- Ezek 38:16-172 verses73%
16 And you shall come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring you against my land, that the nations may know me, when I shall be sanctified in you, O Gog, before their eyes.
17 Thus says the Lord GOD; Are you he of whom I have spoken in former times by my servants the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in those days many years that I would bring you against them?
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8 Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him; he was caught in their pit.
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9 You shall ascend and come like a storm, you shall be like a cloud to cover the land, you, and all your bands, and many people with you.
- Ezek 13:20-212 verses73%
20 Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against your cushions, with which you hunt the souls to make them fly, and I will tear them from your arms, and will let the souls go, even the souls you hunt to make them fly.
21 I will also tear your veils and deliver my people out of your hand, and they shall no longer be in your hand to be hunted; and you shall know that I am the LORD.
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16 Behold, I will send for many fishermen, says the LORD, and they shall fish them; and afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.
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8 The fishermen also shall mourn, and all who cast hooks into the brooks shall lament, and those who spread nets upon the waters shall languish.
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18 Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, her and the daughters of famous nations, to the lower parts of the earth, with those who go down into the pit.
- Ezek 30:10-112 verses72%
10 Thus says the Lord GOD; I will make the multitude of Egypt to cease by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.
11 He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, will be brought to destroy the land: they will draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain.
- Ezek 32:31-322 verses72%
31 Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted over all his multitude, even Pharaoh and all his army slain by the sword, says the Lord GOD.
32 For I have caused my terror in the land of the living: and he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised with those who are slain with the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude, says the Lord GOD.
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18 Who are you thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? Yet you shall be brought down with the trees of Eden to the lower parts of the earth; you shall lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with those who are slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, says the Lord GOD.
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13 Thus says the Lord GOD; Because they say to you, You land devour men, and have bereaved your nations;
- Ezek 28:7-82 verses71%
7 Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon you, the most terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom, and they shall defile your brightness.
8 They shall bring you down to the pit, and you shall die the deaths of those who are slain in the midst of the seas.
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31 And I will pour out my indignation upon you, I will blow against you in the fire of my wrath, and deliver you into the hands of brutish men, skillful to destroy.
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7 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Your slain whom you have laid in its midst, they are the meat, and this city is the cauldron: but I will bring you forth out of its midst.