Ezekiel 47:11 “But the swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they will be left fo…”

Ezekiel 47:11

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

But its swamps and marshes will not be healed. They will be given up to salt.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

But the myrie places thereof, and the marises thereof shall not be wholesome: they shalbe made salt pittes.

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

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

Bible in Basic English

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

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Cross references

“shall not be healed, they shall be”

Revelation 22:11 Hebrews 6:4–8 Hebrews 10:26–31 2 Peter 2:19–22 Revelation 21:8

Revelation 22:11 · BSB

Let the unrighteous continue to be unrighteous, and the vile continue to be vile; let the righteous continue to practice righteousness, and the holy continue to be holy.”

Hebrews 6:4–8 · BSB

It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit,

Hebrews 10:26–31 · BSB

If we deliberately go on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins remains,

2 Peter 2:19–22 · BSB

They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves to depravity. For a man is a slave to whatever has mastered him.

Revelation 21:8 · BSB

But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”

“given”

Deuteronomy 29:23 Judges 9:45 Psalm 107:34 Jeremiah 17:6 Mark 9:48 Mark 9:49

Deuteronomy 29:23 · BSB

All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown and unproductive, with no plant growing on it, just like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His fierce an…

Judges 9:45 · BSB

And all that day Abimelech fought against the city until he had captured it and killed its people. Then he demolished the city and sowed it with salt.

Psalm 107:34 · BSB

and fruitful land into fields of salt, because of the wickedness of its dwellers.

Jeremiah 17:6 · BSB

He will be like a shrub in the desert; he will not see when prosperity comes. He will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.

Mark 9:48 · BSB

where ‘their worm never dies, and the fire is never quenched.’

Mark 9:49 · BSB

For everyone will be salted with fire.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

10Fishermen will stand by the shore; from En-gedi to En-eglaim they will spread their nets to catch fish of many kinds, like the fish of the Great Sea.

12Along both banks of the river, fruit trees of all kinds will grow. Their leaves will not wither, and their fruit will not fail. Each month they will bear fruit, because the water from the sanctuary flows to them. Their fruit will be used for food and their leaves for healing.”

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