Ezechiël 32:14

Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling

Dan zal ik hun wateren doen zakken, hun stromen traag als olie doen vlieten, spreekt de Heere God.

Parallel Translations

Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling
Dan zal Ik hunne wateren doen bezinken en hunne stromen doen vloeien als olie, spreekt de Heere Heere:

Staten Vertaling
Dan zal Ik hunlieder wateren doen zinken, en Ik zal hunlieder rivieren doen gaan als olie, spreekt de Heere HEERE:

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

and cause: The neighbouring countries shall be in a state of quietness, like a river that smoothly glides along, having no longer a political crocodile to foul their waters, or to disturb their peace.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then will l make their waters deep,.... Either the water, of Egypt literally, the waters of the Nile: no canals being cut from it, to carry the water to the several parts of the land, the land being depopulated, and no business done: or, figuratively, other nations, compared to waters for their numbers, who before had been disturbed by the Egyptians; but now they being destroyed, these would be at ease, like troubled waters, which subside, and: become deep and clear, when there is none to trouble them:

and cause their, rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord God; very slowly, as if, they were mourning the unhappy condition of the land; or smoothly, clearly, undisturbed, as before. The Targum is,

"there will I cause the people to rest, and I will lead their kings quietly, saith the Lord God.''

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A promise of a return of God’s favor. This concerns not the restoration of Egypt’s original power, but the establishment of the Divine Ruler in the place of a pagan God-opposing power.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 32:14. Cause their rivers to run like oil — Bring the whole state into quietness, there being no longer a political hippopotamus to foul the waters-to disturb the peace of the country.