Ezekiel 47:11
9 Wherever the river flows, there will be swarms of living creatures and a great number of fish, because it flows there and makes the waters fresh; so wherever the river flows, everything will flourish.
10 Fishermen will stand by the shore; from En-gedi to En-eglaim they will spread their nets to catch fish of many kinds, like the fish of the Great Sea.
But the swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they will be left for salt.
12 Along both banks of the river, fruit trees of all kinds will grow. Their leaves will not wither, and their fruit will not fail. Each month they will bear fruit, because the water from the sanctuary flows to them. Their fruit will be used for food and their leaves for healing.”
13 This is what the Lord GOD says: “These are the boundaries by which you are to divide the land as an inheritance among the twelve tribes of Israel; Joseph shall receive two portions.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- But the swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they will be left for salt.
- KJV
- But the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt.
- WEB
- But its swamps and marshes will not be healed. They will be given up to salt.
- ASV
- But the miry places thereof, and the marshes thereof, shall not be healed; they shall be given up to salt.
- DARBY
- But its marshes and its pools shall not be healed; they shall be given up to salt.
- BLB
- And its swamps and marshes will still not be healed; they will be given to salt.
- ÅB
- Men myrene og pyttene der skal ikke bli sunde; de skal bare være til å utvinne salt av.
- OTB
- Men sumpene og myrene vil forbli salte; de vil være reservert for salt.
- B1930
- Men myrene og pyttene der skal ikke bli sunde; de skal bare være til å utvinne salt av.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Deuteronomy 29:23
All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown and unproductive, with no plant growing on it, just like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His fierce anger.
Read in contextRevelation 22:11
Let the unrighteous continue to be unrighteous, and the vile continue to be vile; let the righteous continue to practice righteousness, and the holy continue to be holy.”
Read in context2 Peter 2:19–22
They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves to depravity. For a man is a slave to whatever has mastered him.
Read in contextJeremiah 17:6
He will be like a shrub in the desert; he will not see when prosperity comes. He will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.
Read in contextJudges 9:45
And all that day Abimelech fought against the city until he had captured it and killed its people. Then he demolished the city and sowed it with salt.
Read in contextHebrews 10:26–31
If we deliberately go on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins remains,
Read in contextMark 9:48–49
where ‘their worm never dies, and the fire is never quenched.’
Read in contextPsalms 107:34
and fruitful land into fields of salt, because of the wickedness of its dwellers.
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