Ezekiel 35:8Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers

Douay-RheimsHebrew (Masoretic text)

And I will fill his mountains with his men that are slain: in thy hills, and in thy valleys, and in thy torrents they shall fall that are slain with the sword.
Douay-Rheims

וּמִלֵּאתִ֥י אֶת־הָרָ֖יו חֲלָלָ֑יו גִּבְעוֹתֶ֤יךָ וְגֵאוֹתֶ֙יךָ֙ וְכָל־אֲפִיקֶ֔יךָ חַלְלֵי־חֶ֖רֶב יִפְּל֥וּ בָהֶֽם׃
Hebrew (Masoretic text)

The Church Fathers on this verse

One Church Father comments on this verse

Theodoret of Cyrus

5th centuryChurch Father

He states once more, ‘It shall be desolate forever, and it shall not be inhabited,’ reflecting the unique style found in Scripture. Therefore, as we have previously discussed the devastation of Tyre, let us comprehend this as well. Having pronounced the warning of judgment, he once again reveals their deceit.

Cross references

Passages read together with this verse.

Ezek 31:12And strangers, and the most cruel of the nations shall cut him down, and cast him away upon the mountains, and his boughs shall fall in every valley, and his branches shall be broken on every rock of the country: and all the people of the earth shall depart from his shadow, and leave him.
Ezek 32:4And I will throw thee out on the land, I will cast thee away into the open field and I will cause all the fowls of the air to dwell upon thee, and I will fill the beasts of all the earth with thee.
Ezek 32:5And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and will fill thy hills with thy corruption,
Ezek 39:4Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou and all thy bands, and thy nations that are with thee: I have given thee to the wild beasts, to the birds, and to every fowl, and to the beasts of the earth to be devoured.
Ezek 39:5Thou shalt fall upon the face of the field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God.
Isa 34:2For the indignation of the Lord is upon all nations, and his fury upon all their armies: he hath killed them, and delivered them to slaughter.
Isa 34:7And the unicorns shall go down with them, and the bulls with the mighty: their land shall be soaked with blood, and their ground with the fat of fat ones.