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Ezekiel 29:5 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 5. 5And I will leave thee thrown into the wilderness, thee and all the fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open fields; thou shalt not be brought together, nor gathered: I have given thee for meat to the beasts of the field and to the fowls of the heaven.
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Role in This Section
The prophetic word through Ezekiel carries the next action, claim, image, or measurement through “And I will leave thee thrown into the wilderness, thee and all the fish of thy rivers” at Ezekiel 29:5 as part of “Pharaoh Is Portrayed as a Nile Dragon and Broken Reed.”
Read It With
- Ezekiel 29:1–7
Read Ezekiel 29:5 with 29:1–7. By itself, “And I will leave thee thrown into the wilderness, thee and all the fish of thy rivers” can be detached from the speaker, addressee, date, exilic horizon, visionary movement, or outcome that gives it force. The complete unit establishes: Pharaoh claims the Nile as his own and is pictured as a great river creature dragged out with fish; Egypt's unreliable support is a reed that wounds Israel's hand and shoulder.
Why It Needs Context
Ezekiel 29:5 performs a local role inside “Pharaoh Is Portrayed as a Nile Dragon and Broken Reed.” The prophetic word through Ezekiel carries the next action, claim, image, or measurement through “And I will leave thee thrown into the wilderness, thee and all the fish of thy rivers” at Ezekiel 29:5 as part of “Pharaoh Is Portrayed as a Nile Dragon and Broken Reed.” The selected verse alone does not carry the full claim.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Ezekiel 29:1–7 — Pharaoh Is Portrayed as a Nile Dragon and Broken ReedSources used for this context pointer
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Ezekiel 29:1–7, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Ezekiel
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology checked at the exact unit without treating morphology as a critical apparatus or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Ezek.xml, OSIS 29:1–7
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