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I will lay your flesh on the mountains, and fill the valleys with your height.
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A Picture of Total Defeat
Commentators explain that this verse paints a graphic picture of total military defeat. The imagery shifts from a hunted beast to the aftermath of a slaughter. God's judgment is depicted as so complete that the corpses of Egypt's army will be scattered across the mountains and piled so high they fill the valleys.
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Ezekiel
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The prophet passes from the image of the crocodile to that of dead bodies of the slain heaped up on the land. Some render "height" or "foulness."
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
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