Ezekiel 47:11

The NET Bible®

But its swamps and its marshes will not become fresh; they will remain 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 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 Then he brought me back to the entrance of the temple. I noticed that water was flowing from under the threshold of the temple toward the east (for the temple faced east). The water was flowing down from under the right side of the temple, from south of the altar. ² He led me out by way of the north gate and brought me around the outside of the outer gate that faces toward the east; I noticed that the water was trickling out from the south side. ³ When the man went out toward the east with a measuring line in his hand, he measured 1,750 feet, and then he led me through water, which was ankle deep. ⁴ Again he measured 1,750 feet and led me through the water, which was now knee deep. Once more he measured 1,750 feet and led me through the water, which was waist deep. ⁵ Again he measured 1,750 feet and it was a river I could not cross, for the water had risen; it was deep enough to swim in, a river that could not be crossed. ⁶ He said to me, "Son of man, have you seen this?" Then he led me back to the bank of the river. ⁷ When I had returned, I noticed a vast number of trees on the banks of the river, on both sides. ⁸ He said to me, "These waters go out toward the eastern region and flow down into the Arabah; when they enter the Dead Sea, where the sea is stagnant, the waters become fresh. ⁹ Every living creature which swarms where the river flows will live; there will be many fish, for these waters flow there. It will become fresh and everything will live where the river flows. ¹⁰ Fishermen will stand beside it; from Engedi to En-eglaim they will spread nets. They will catch many kinds of fish, like the fish of the Great Sea.

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
The land of Egypt is before you; settle your father and your brothers in the best region of the land. They may live in the land of Goshen. If you know of any highly capable men among them, put them in charge of my livestock."

Exodus 1:11
So they put foremen over the Israelites to oppress them with hard labor. As a result they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.

Exodus 12:37
The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Sukkoth. There were about 600,000 men on foot, plus their dependants.

John 10:10
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come so that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

John 10:28
I give them eternal life, and they will never perish; no one will snatch them from my hand.

John 14:2
There are many dwelling places in my Father's house. Otherwise, I would have told you, because I am going away to make ready a place for you.

John 14:23
Jesus replied, "If anyone loves me, he will obey my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and take up residence with him.

John 17:2
just as you have given him authority over all humanity, so that he may give eternal life to everyone you have given him.

John 17:24
"Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, so that they can see my glory that you gave me because you loved me before the creation of the world.

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.