What Does Ezekiel 32:6 Mean in the King James?
I will also water with thy blood the land wherein thou swimmest, even to the mountains; and the rivers shall be full of thee.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The one who moved through the waters becomes both the blood that waters the land and the body that fills its rivers.
THE MEANING
The verse makes violence visible across the whole landscape: blood reaches the mountains, and the rivers are filled with the body. The one addressed, once moving through the water, becomes what saturates it. Judgment is held in physical terms, with no distance between the fallen ruler and what the land carries.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie that power can remain separate from the consequences of violence breaks here: the addressed figure’s own blood waters the land, and the rivers fill with him.
THE ROOT
וְהִשְׁקֵיתִי
vehishqēti
GROWS FROM
שקה
to give drink; to water
The verb makes the land receive a drink: blood is not merely spilled on the ground but made to water it. The image turns an act associated with sustaining life into the means by which the land is saturated with violence.
ALSO GROWS
mashqeh: a drink, beverage; a cupbearer
מַשְׁקֶה
This branch names drink and the one who serves it; the verse twists that familiar act of provision into the land drinking blood.
hashqayah: watering; irrigation
הַשְׁקָיָה
This branch names water being distributed over land, bringing the verse’s grotesque image of blood as irrigation into focus.
יִמָּלְאוּן
yimmale'un
GROWS FROM
מלא
to fill; to be full
“full” in this verse is yimmale'un. The rivers do not merely carry traces of the fallen figure; they are filled with him. Fullness turns the waterways into a measure of the judgment’s reach: the image leaves no channel outside it.
ALSO GROWS
male: to fill; to be full
מָלֵא
This verbal form makes fullness an event: the rivers become filled with the figure addressed.
melō: fullness; a full measure
מְלֹא
This noun carries the sense of an expanse filled to its measure, matching the verse’s image of rivers filled with the fallen ruler.
THE PATTERN
Violence returns through the world it has saturated.
His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.THE THREAD
For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.Ezekiel’s image makes the land drink the ruler’s blood; Revelation makes blood the drink given back to those who shed it. In both, violence returns as the very substance of judgment.
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