Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Thus sayeth the LORD God: I will spread my net over thee, namely, a great multitude of people: these shall drive thee into my yarn,
New American Standard Bible
Thus says the Lord
“Now I will
With a company of many peoples,
And they shall lift you up in My net.
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.
Holman Bible
This is what the Lord God says:
with an assembly of many peoples,
and they
International Standard Version
"This is what the Lord GOD says: "I'm coming fishing for you! Right in the sight of many nations they'll haul you up in my dragnet.
A Conservative Version
Thus says lord LORD: 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
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.
Amplified
Thus says the Lord God,
With a company of many nations,
And they will bring you up in My net.
Bible in Basic English
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.
Darby Translation
Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will also spread out my net over thee with an assemblage of many peoples; and they shall bring thee up in my net.
Julia Smith Translation
Thus said the Lord Jehovah: and I spread my net over thee with a convocation of many peoples; and they brought thee up in my net
King James 2000
Thus says the Lord GOD; I will therefore spread out my net over you with a company of many people; and they shall bring you up in my net.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Now I will spread my net over you in [the] assembly of many peoples, and I will bring you up in my dragnet.
Modern King James verseion
So says the Lord Jehovah: I will therefore spread out My net over you with an assembly of many peoples; and they shall lift you up in My net.
NET Bible
"'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.
New Heart English Bible
"Thus says the Lord GOD: 'I will spread out my net on you with a company of many peoples; and they shall bring you up in my net.
The Emphasized Bible
Thus saith My Lord, Yahweh, Therefore will I spread over thee my net, With a gathered host of many e peoples,-And they shall bring thee up in my net;
Webster
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.
World English Bible
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
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.
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Ezekiel 32:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Lament For Pharaoh, King Of Egypt
2 "Thou son of man, take up a lamentation upon Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and say unto him, 'Thou art reputed as a Lion of the Heathen, and as a whalefish in the sea. Thou castest thy waters about thee, thou troublest the waters with thy feet, and stampest in their floods. 3 Thus sayeth the LORD God: I will spread my net over thee, namely, a great multitude of people: these shall drive thee into my yarn, 4 for I will cast thee upon the land. I let thee lie upon the field, that all the fowls of the air may sit upon thee; I will give all the beasts of the field enough of thee.
Names
Cross References
Ezekiel 12:13
My line will I spread out upon him, and catch him in my net, and carry him to Babylon, in the land of the Chaldeans: which he shall not see, and yet shall he die there.
Ecclesiastes 9:12
For man knoweth not his time, but like as the fish are taken with the angle and as the birds are caught with the snare: Even so are men taken in the perilous time, when it cometh suddenly upon them.
Jeremiah 16:16
Behold, sayeth the LORD, I will send out many fishers to take them, and after that will I send out many hunters to hunt them out, from all mountains and hills and out of the caves of stones.
Lamentations 1:13
{Mem} From above hath he sent down a fire into my bones: and it burned them cruelly. He hath laid a net for my feet, and thrown me wide open: he hath made me desolate, so that I must ever be mourning.
Ezekiel 17:20
I will cast my net about him, and catch him in my yarn. To Babylon will I carry him: there will I punish him, because of the great offense that he made me.
Hosea 7:12
but while they be going here and there, I shall spread my net over them, and draw them down as the fowls of the air. And according as they have been warned, so will I punish them.
Habakkuk 1:14-17
Thou makest men as the fish in the sea, and like as the creeping beasts, that have no guide.