Ezekiel 47:11

Bible in Basic English

The wet places and the pools will not be made sweet; they will be given up to salt.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Yet its swamps and marshes will not be healed; they will be left for salt.

Hebrew Names Version
But the miry places of it, and the marshes of it, shall not be healed; they shall be given up to salt.

King James Version
But the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt.

English Standard Version
But its swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they are to be left for salt.

New American Standard Bible
"But its swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they will be left for salt.

New Century Version
But its swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they will be left for salt.

Amplified Bible
"But its swamps and marshes will not become fresh [and wholesome for animal life]; they will [as the river subsides] be left encrusted with salt.

Geneva Bible (1587)
But the myrie places thereof, and the marises thereof shall not be wholesome: they shalbe made salt pittes.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"But its swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they will be left for salt.

Legacy Standard Bible
But its marshes and swamps will not be healed; they will be left for salt.

Berean Standard Bible
But the swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they will be left for salt.

Contemporary English Version
But the marshes along the shore will remain salty, so that people can use the salt from them.

Complete Jewish Bible
However, its mud flats and marshes will not become fresh but will remain salty.

Darby Translation
But its marshes and its pools shall not be healed; they shall be given up to salt.

Easy-to-Read Version
But the swamps and small marshes will not become fresh. They will be left for salt.

George Lamsa Translation
But the water in its springs and mouths shall not be fresh, but it shall become salt.

Good News Translation
But the water in the marshes and ponds along the shore will not be made fresh. They will remain there as a source of salt.

Lexham English Bible
But its marshes and its swamps will not be cured, for they were given for salt.

Literal Translation
Its swamps and its marshes shall not even be healed, they shall be given to salt.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
As for his claye and pyttes, they shal not be whole, for why, it shalbe occupide for salt.

American Standard Version
But the miry places thereof, and the marshes thereof, shall not be healed; they shall be given up to salt.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
But the miry places thereof, and the marshes thereof, shall not be healed; they shall be given for salt.

King James Version (1611)
But the myrie places thereof, and the marishes thereof, shall not be healed, they shall be giuen to salt.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
But the marishes thereof, and the pits thereof, shal not be made holsome, they shalbe made salt pits.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
But at the outlet of the water, and the turn of it, and where it overflows its banks, they shall not heal at all; they are given to salt.

English Revised Version
But the miry places thereof, and the marishes thereof, shall not be healed; they shall be given up to salt.

World English Bible
But the miry places of it, and the marshes of it, shall not be healed; they shall be given up to salt.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
but in brynkis therof and in maraisis watris shulen not be heelid, for tho `schulen be youun in to places of makynge of salt.

Update Bible Version
But the miry places thereof, and the marshes thereof, shall not be healed; they shall be given up to salt.

Webster's Bible Translation
But its miry places and its marshes shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt.

New English Translation
But its swamps and its marshes will not become fresh; they will remain salty.

New King James Version
But its swamps and marshes will not be healed; they will be given over to salt.

New Living Translation
But the marshes and swamps will not be purified; they will still be salty.

New Life Bible
But its wet places and pools will not be good for animal life. They will be left for salt.

New Revised Standard
But its swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they are to be left for salt.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
the swamps thereof and the pools thereof, shall not be healed to salt, have they been given up.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But on the shore thereof, and in the fenny places they shall not be healed, because they shall be turned into saltpits.

Revised Standard Version
But its swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they are to be left for salt.

Young's Literal Translation
Its miry and its marshy places -- they are not healed; to salt they have been given up.

THE MESSAGE
"The swamps and marshes won't become fresh. They'll stay salty.

Contextual Overview

¹ And he took me back to the door of the house; and I saw that waters were flowing out from under the doorstep of the house on the east, for the house was facing east: and the waters came down from under, from the right side of the house, on the south side of the altar. ² And he took me out by the north doorway, and made me go round to the outside of the doorway looking to the east; and I saw waters running slowly out on the south side. ³ And the man went out to the east with the line in his hand, and after measuring a thousand cubits, he made me go through the waters, which came over my feet. ⁴ And again, measuring a thousand cubits, he made me go through the waters which came up to my knees. Again, measuring a thousand, he made me go through the waters up to the middle of my body. ⁵ Again, after his measuring a thousand, it became a river which it was not possible to go through: for the waters had become deep enough for swimming, a river it was not possible to go through. ⁶ And he said to me, Son of man, have you seen this? Then he took me to the river's edge. ⁷ And he took me back, and I saw at the edge of the river a very great number of trees on this side and on that. ⁸ And he said to me, These waters are flowing out to the east part of the land and down into the Arabah; and they will go to the sea, and the waters will be made sweet. ⁹ And it will come about that every living and moving thing, wherever their streams come, will have life; and there will be very much fish because these waters have come there and have been made sweet: and everything wherever the river comes will have life. ¹⁰ And fishermen will take up their places by it: from En-gedi as far as En-eglaim will be a place for the stretching out of nets; the fish will be of every sort, like the fish of the Great Sea, a very great number.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the miry places: Those who reject, neglect, or pervert the gospel.

shall not be healed, they shall be: or, and that which shall not be

shall be: etc. Hebrews 6:4-8, Hebrews 10:26-31, 2 Peter 2:19-22, Revelation 21:8, Revelation 22:11

given: Deuteronomy 29:23, Judges 9:45, Psalms 107:34, Jeremiah 17:6, Mark 9:48, Mark 9:49

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 2:20 - salt therein Job 39:6 - barren land Daniel 12:10 - but the wicked

Cross-References

Genesis 47:6
And Jacob and his sons came to Joseph in Egypt, and when word of it came to the ears of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, he said to Joseph, Your father and brothers have come to you; all the land of Egypt is before you; let your father and your brothers have the best of the land for their resting-place.

Exodus 1:11
So they put overseers of forced work over them, in order to make their strength less by the weight of their work. And they made store-towns for Pharaoh, Pithom and Raamses.

Exodus 12:37
And the children of Israel made the journey from Rameses to Succoth; there were about six hundred thousand men on foot, as well as children.

John 10:10
The thief comes only to take the sheep and to put them to death: he comes for their destruction: I have come so that they may have life and have it in greater measure.

John 10:28
And I give them eternal life; they will never come to destruction, and no one will ever take them out of my hand.

John 14:2
In my Father's house are rooms enough; if it was not so, would I have said that I am going to make ready a place for you?

John 14:23
Jesus said to him in answer, If anyone has love for me, he will keep my words: and he will be dear to my Father; and we will come to him and make our living-place with him.

John 17:2
Even as you gave him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all those whom you have given to him.

John 17:24
Father, it is my desire that these whom you have given to me may be by my side where I am, so that they may see my glory which you have given to me, because you had love for me before the world came into being.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But the miry places thereof, and the marshes thereof,.... That is, of the sea; the waters of which were healed, by the waters of the sanctuary coming into them: but the ditches and lakes, the miry and marsh ground, separate from the sea, which lay near it, and upon the borders of it,

shall not be healed; these design the reprobate part of the world, obstinate and perverse sinners, that abandon themselves to their filthy lusts, and sensual pleasures; that wallow like swine in the mire and dirt of sin; are wholly immersed in the things of this world, mind nothing but earth and earthly things, and load themselves with thick clay; whose god is their belly, and who glory in their shame: also hypocrites and apostates may be here meant, who, despising the GospeL, and the doctrines of it, put it away from them, and judge themselves unworthy of everlasting life, and so receive no benefit by it; but, on the contrary, it is the savour of death unto death unto them; see Isaiah 6:9:

they shall be given to salt; left to the hardness of their hearts; given up to the lusts of them; devoted to ruin and destruction and remain barren and unfruitful, as places demolished and sown with salt are; see Deuteronomy 29:23, or made an example of, as Lot's wife was; that others may learn wisdom, and shun those things that have been the cause of their ruin. The Targum is,

"its pools and lakes shall not be healed; they shall be for salt pits.''

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The exception, which reserves for sterility places to which the living water does not reach, probably indicates that the life and health are solely due to the stream which proceeds from beneath the throne of God. Compare Isaiah 57:20-21.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 47:11. The miry places — "Point out," says Calmet, "the schismatics and hereties who do not live by the Spirit of Jesus Christ, but separate from his Church; and the evil Christians who dishonour that Church, of which they are corrupt members." A description applicable to the Roman Catholic Church, that is both schismatic and heretic from the Church of Jesus Christ, which is built on the foundation of the prophets and apostles, Jesus himself being the chief corner stone; for the Church of Rome, leaving this foundation, is now built on the foundation of councils and traditions, and lying miracles; the popes in their succession being its only corner stones.