Ezekiel 47:11
What does Ezekiel 47:11 mean?
A plain-English look at Ezekiel 47:11 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000But the miry places thereof, and the marshes thereof, shall not be healed; they shall be given up to salt.
KJV
King James Version · 1611But the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901But the miry places thereof, and the marshes thereof, shall not be healed; they shall be given up to salt.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949The wet places and the pools will not be made sweet; they will be given up to salt.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862Its miry and its marshy places--they are not healed; to salt they have been given up.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752But on the shore thereof, and in the fenny places they shall not be healed, because they shall be turned into saltpits.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890But its marshes and its pools shall not be healed; they shall be given up to salt.
Context
v.10And it shall come to pass, that fishers shall stand by it: from En-gedi even unto En-eglaim shall be a place for the spreading of nets; their fish shall be after their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many.
v.11This passage
v.12And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow every tree for food, whose leaf shall not wither, neither shall the fruit thereof fail: it shall bring forth new fruit every month, because the waters thereof issue out of the sanctuary; and the fruit thereof shall be for food, and the leaf thereof for healing.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 2 Peter 2:19
promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he also brought into bondage.
- Hebrews 10:26
For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more a sacrifice for sins,
- Jeremiah 17:6
For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.
- Mark 9:48
where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
- Revelation 22:11
He that is unrighteous, let him do unrighteousness still: and he that is filthy, let him be made filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him do righteousness still: and he that is holy, let him be made holy still.
- Hebrews 6:4
For as touching those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,
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