Ezekiel 47:11

Young's Literal Translation

Its miry and its marshy places -- they are not healed; to salt they have been given up.

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.

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

Contextual Overview

¹ And he causeth me to turn back unto the opening of the house; and lo, water is coming forth from under the threshold of the house eastward, for the front of the house [is] eastward, and the water is coming down from beneath, from the right side of the house, from the south of the altar. ² And he causeth me to go out the way of the gate northward, and causeth me to turn round the way without, unto the gate that [is] without, the way that is looking eastward, and lo, water is coming forth from the right side. ³ In the going out of the man eastward, and a line in his hand, then he measureth a thousand by the cubit, and he causeth me to pass over into water -- water to the ankles. ⁴ And he measureth a thousand, and causeth me to pass over into water -- water to the knees. And he measureth a thousand, and causeth me to pass over -- water to the loins. ⁵ And he measureth a thousand -- a stream that I am not able to pass over; for risen have the waters -- waters to swim in -- a stream that is not passed over. ⁶ And he saith unto me, `Hast thou seen, son of man?' and he leadeth me, and bringeth me back unto the edge of the stream. <sup>7</sup> In my turning back, then, lo, at the edge of the stream [are] very many trees, on this side and on that side. <sup>8</sup> And he saith unto me, `These waters are going forth unto the east circuit, and have gone down unto the desert, and have entered the sea; unto the sea they are brought forth, and the waters have been healed. ⁹ And it hath come to pass, every living creature that teemeth, whithersoever the streams come, doth live: and there hath been great abundance of fish, for these waters have come thither, and they are healed; and every thing whither the stream cometh hath lived. ¹⁰ And it hath come to pass, fishers do stand by it, from En-Gedi even unto En-Eglaim; a spreading place of nets they are; according to their own kind is their fish, as the fish of the great sea, very many.

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 thee; in the best of the land cause thy father and thy brethren to dwell -- they dwell in the land of Goshen, and if thou hast known, and there are among them men of ability, then thou hast set them heads over the cattle I have.'

Exodus 1:11
And they set over it princes of tribute, so as to afflict it with their burdens, and it buildeth store-cities for Pharaoh, Pithom and Raamses;

Exodus 12:37
And the sons of Israel journey from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, apart from infants;

John 10:10
`The thief doth not come, except that he may steal, and kill, and destroy; I came that they may have life, and may have [it] abundantly.

John 10:28
and life age-during I give to them, and they shall not perish -- to the age, and no one shall pluck them out of my hand;

John 14:2
in the house of my Father are many mansions; and if not, I would have told you; I go on to prepare a place for you;

John 14:23
Jesus answered and said to him, `If any one may love me, my word he will keep, and my Father will love him, and unto him we will come, and abode with him we will make;

John 17:2
according as Thou didst give to him authority over all flesh, that -- all that Thou hast given to him -- he may give to them life age-during;

John 17:24
`Father, those whom Thou hast given to me, I will that where I am they also may be with me, that they may behold my glory that Thou didst give to me, because Thou didst love me before the foundation 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.