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Ezekiel 32:14

Then I will make their waters clear and their rivers will be flowing like oil, says the Lord.

Bible Study Resources

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Heart;   Repentance;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Poetry;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Egypt;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Oil;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then I will let their waters settleand will make their rivers flow like oil.
Hebrew Names Version
Then will I make their waters clear, and cause their rivers to run like oil, says the Lord GOD.
King James Version
Then will I make their waters deep, and cause their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord God .
English Standard Version
Then I will make their waters clear, and cause their rivers to run like oil, declares the Lord God .
New American Standard Bible
"Then I will make their waters settle, And make their rivers run like oil," Declares the Lord GOD.
New Century Version
So I will let the Egyptians' water become clear. I will cause their rivers to run as smoothly as olive oil, says the Lord God .
Amplified Bible
"Then I will make their waters quiet and clear; I will make their rivers run [slowly and smoothly] like oil," Says the Lord GOD.
World English Bible
Then will I make their waters clear, and cause their rivers to run like oil, says the Lord Yahweh.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then will I make their waters deepe, and cause their riuers to runne like oyle, sayeth the Lord God.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Then I will make their waters settle And will cause their rivers to run like oil," Declares the Lord GOD.
Legacy Standard Bible
Then I will make their waters settleAnd will cause their rivers to run like oil,"Declares Lord Yahweh.
Berean Standard Bible
Then I will let her waters settle and will make her rivers flow like oil, declares the Lord GOD.
Contemporary English Version
The water will be clear, and streams will be calm. I, the Lord God, have spoken.
Complete Jewish Bible
Then I will make their water clear and cause their streams to flow like oil,' says Adonai Elohim .
Darby Translation
Then will I make their waters clear, and cause their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord Jehovah.
Easy-to-Read Version
So I will make the water in Egypt calm. I will cause their rivers to run slowly—they will be slick like oil." This is what the Lord God said.
George Lamsa Translation
Then I will make their waters clear, and cause their rivers to run smooth like oil, says the LORD God.
Good News Translation
I will let your waters settle and become clear and let your rivers run calm. I, the Sovereign Lord , have spoken.
Lexham English Bible
Then I will make their waters settle, and their rivers as the olive oil I will let flow," declares the Lord Yahweh.
Literal Translation
Then I will make their waters sink and cause their rivers to go down like oil, says the Lord Jehovah.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then wil I make their waters cleare, and cause their floudes to runne like oyle, sayeth the LORDE God:
American Standard Version
Then will I make their waters clear, and cause their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord Jehovah.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Then will I make their waters to settle, and cause their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord GOD.
King James Version (1611)
Then will I make their waters deepe, and cause their riuers to runne like oyle, saith the Lord God.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then wyll I make their waters deepe, and cause their riuers to runne lyke oyle, saith the Lorde God,
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Thus shall their waters then be at rest, and their rivers shall flow like oil, saith the Lord,
English Revised Version
Then will I make their waters clear, and cause their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord GOD.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thanne Y schal yelde the watris of hem clenneste, and Y schal brynge the floodis of hem as oile, seith the Lord God,
Update Bible Version
Then I will make their waters clear, and cause their rivers to run like oil, says the Lord Yahweh.
Webster's Bible Translation
Then will I make their waters deep, and cause their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord GOD.
New English Translation
Then I will make their waters calm, and will make their streams flow like olive oil, declares the sovereign Lord .
New King James Version
Then I will make their waters clear, And make their rivers run like oil,' Says the Lord GOD.
New Living Translation
Then I will let the waters of Egypt become calm again, and they will flow as smoothly as olive oil, says the Sovereign Lord .
New Life Bible
I will make their waters clear and make their rivers flow like oil," says the Lord God.
New Revised Standard
Then I will make their waters clear, and cause their streams to run like oil, says the Lord God .
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then, will I make their waters subside, And their streams - like, will I cause to flow, - Declareth My Lord, Yahweh.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Then will I make their waters clear, and cause their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord God:
Revised Standard Version
Then I will make their waters clear, and cause their rivers to run like oil, says the Lord GOD.
Young's Literal Translation
Then do I cause their waters to sink, And their rivers as oil I cause to go, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.

Contextual Overview

1 And it came about in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2 Son of man, make a song of grief for Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and say to him, Young lion of the nations, destruction has come on you; and you were like a sea-beast in the seas, sending out bursts of water, troubling the waters with your feet, making their streams dirty. 3 This is what the Lord has said: My net will be stretched out over you, and I will take you up in my fishing-net. 4 And I will let you be stretched on the land; I will send you out violently into the open field; I will let all the birds of heaven come to rest on you and will make the beasts of all the earth full of you. 5 And I will put your flesh on the mountains, and make the valleys full of your blood. 6 And the land will be watered with your blood, and the waterways will be full of you. 7 And when I put out your life, the heaven will be covered and its stars made dark; I will let the sun be covered with a cloud and the moon will not give her light. 8 All the bright lights of heaven I will make dark over you, and put dark night on your land, says the Lord. 9 And the hearts of numbers of peoples will be troubled, when I send your prisoners among the nations, into a country which is strange to you. 10 And I will make a number of peoples overcome with wonder at you, and their kings will be full of fear because of you, when my sword is waved before them: they will be shaking every minute, every man fearing for his life, in the day of your fall.

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.

Cross-References

Genesis 30:43
So Jacob's wealth was greatly increased; he had great flocks and women-servants and men-servants and camels and asses.
Genesis 31:9
So God has taken away your father's cattle and has given them to me.
Genesis 31:16
For the wealth which God has taken from him is ours and our children's; so now, whatever God has said to you, do.
Deuteronomy 8:18
But keep in mind the Lord your God: for it is he who gives you the power to get wealth, so that he may give effect to the agreement which he made by his oath with your fathers, as at this day.
1 Samuel 25:2
Now there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel; he was a great man and had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats: and he was cutting the wool of his sheep in Carmel.
Job 1:3
And of cattle he had seven thousand sheep and goats, and three thousand camels, and a thousand oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and a very great number of servants. And the man was greater than any of the sons of the east.
Job 42:12
And the Lord's blessing was greater on the end of Job's life than on its start: and so he came to have fourteen thousand sheep and goats, and six thousand camels, and two thousand oxen, and a thousand she-asses.

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.


 
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