Ezekiel 47:11

THE MESSAGE

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

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.

Bible in Basic English
The wet places and the pools will not be made sweet; they will 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.

Contextual Overview

¹Now he brought me back to the entrance to the Temple. I saw water pouring out from under the Temple porch to the east (the Temple faced east). The water poured from the south side of the Temple, south of the altar. He then took me out through the north gate and led me around the outside to the gate complex on the east. The water was gushing from under the south front of the Temple. ³He walked to the east with a measuring tape and measured off fifteen hundred feet, leading me through water that was ankle-deep. He measured off another fifteen hundred feet, leading me through water that was knee-deep. He measured off another fifteen hundred feet, leading me through water waist-deep. He measured off another fifteen hundred feet. By now it was a river over my head, water to swim in, water no one could possibly walk through. ⁶He said, "Son of man, have you had a good look?" Then he took me back to the riverbank. While sitting on the bank, I noticed a lot of trees on both sides of the river. ⁸He told me, "This water flows east, descends to the Arabah and then into the sea, the sea of stagnant waters. When it empties into those waters, the sea will become fresh. Wherever the river flows, life will flourish—great schools of fish—because the river is turning the salt sea into fresh water. Where the river flows, life abounds. Fishermen will stand shoulder to shoulder along the shore from En-gedi all the way north to En-eglaim, casting their nets. The sea will teem with fish of all kinds, like the fish of the Great Mediterranean. ¹¹ "The swamps and marshes won't become fresh. They'll stay salty. ¹² "But the river itself, on both banks, will grow fruit trees of all kinds. Their leaves won't wither, the fruit won't fail. Every month they'll bear fresh fruit because the river from the Sanctuary flows to them. Their fruit will be for food and their leaves for healing."

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

Exodus 1:11
So they organized them into work-gangs and put them to hard labor under gang-foremen. They built the storage cities Pithom and Rameses for Pharaoh. But the harder the Egyptians worked them the more children the Israelites had—children everywhere! The Egyptians got so they couldn't stand the Israelites and treated them worse than ever, crushing them with slave labor. They made them miserable with hard labor—making bricks and mortar and back-breaking work in the fields. They piled on the work, crushing them under the cruel workload.

Exodus 12:37
The Israelites moved on from Rameses to Succoth, about 600,000 on foot, besides their dependents. There was also a crowd of riffraff tagging along, not to mention the large flocks and herds of livestock. They baked unraised cakes with the bread dough they had brought out of Egypt; it hadn't raised—they'd been rushed out of Egypt and hadn't time to fix food for the journey.

John 14:23
"Because a loveless world," said Jesus, "is a sightless world. If anyone loves me, he will carefully keep my word and my Father will love him—we'll move right into the neighborhood! Not loving me means not keeping my words. The message you are hearing isn't mine. It's the message of the Father who sent me.

John 17:24
Father, I want those you gave me To be with me, right where I am, So they can see my glory, the splendor you gave me, Having loved me Long before there ever was a world. Righteous Father, the world has never known you, But I have known you, and these disciples know That you sent me on this mission. I have made your very being known to them— Who you are and what you do— And continue to make it known, So that your love for me Might be in them Exactly as I am in them.

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.