Ezekiel 47:11
New International Version
But the swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they will be left for salt.

New Living Translation
But the marshes and swamps will not be purified; they will still be salty.

English Standard Version
But its swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they are to be left for salt.

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

King James Bible
But the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof 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 American Standard Bible
But its swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they will be left for salt.

NASB 1995
“But its swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they will be left for salt.

NASB 1977
“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.

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.

Christian Standard Bible
Yet its swamps and marshes will not be healed; they will be left for salt.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Yet its swamps and marshes will not be healed; they will be left 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.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And its exits and its entrances shall not be sweetened, but they shall be salt

Brenton Septuagint Translation
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.

Contemporary English Version
But the marshes along the shore will remain salty, so that people can use the salt from them.

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.

English Revised Version
But the miry places thereof, and the marishes thereof, shall not be healed; they shall be given up to salt.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
But the water in the swamps and marshes won't become fresh. It will remain salty.

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.

International Standard Version
"The river delta will consist of swamps and marshes that will remain a salt water wetland preserve.

JPS Tanakh 1917
But the miry places thereof, and the marshes thereof, shall not be healed; they shall be given for salt.

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

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

New American Bible
Its marshes and swamps shall not be made fresh, but will be left for salt.

NET Bible
But its swamps and its marshes will not become fresh; they will remain salty.

New Revised Standard Version
But its swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they are to be left for salt.

New Heart English Bible
But the miry places of it, and its marshes, 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.

World English Bible
But its swamps marshes will not be healed. They will 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.

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Context
Waters from Under the Temple
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. 11But the swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they will be left for salt. 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.”…

Cross References
Deuteronomy 29:23
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 anger.

Ezekiel 47:12
Along 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."


Treasury of Scripture

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

shall not be healed, they shall be.

Hebrews 6:4-8
For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, …

Hebrews 10:26-31
For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, …

2 Peter 2:19-22
While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage…

given

Deuteronomy 29:23
And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:

Judges 9:45
And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and slew the people that was therein, and beat down the city, and sowed it with salt.

Psalm 107:34
A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

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Ezekiel 47
1. The vision of the holy waters
6. The virtue of them
13. The borders of the land
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(11) The marishes thereof shall not be healed.--The picture of the life-giving waters would be imperfect without this exception to their effects. The Dead Sea at the southern end is very shallow, and beyond there is an extensive tract of very low land. In the season of the flood of the Jordan this is overflowed to a considerable distance, and as the river subsides, is again left bare and encrusted with salt from the evaporation of the water. This allusion, therefore, shows plainly that the prophet did not have in mind a flowing on of the river through the Arabah, or valley leading from the Dead to the Red Sea, and that the effect of the life-giving waters should cease where the waters themselves ceased to flow; at the same time, in the thing symbolised, it shows that we are not to expect, as the effect of the Gospel, a perfect and universal obedience to its teachings. Man is still left free to hear or forbear, and the world must be expected always to contain its unhealed miry and marshy places.

Verse 11. - The miry places thereof (בִּצּלֺאתָו an incorrect reading for בִּצּותַיו, the plural with suffix of בִּצָּה, "a marsh, or swamp," as in Job 8:11; Job 40:21) and the marshes thereof גְבָיָאו, "its pools and sloughs" (comp. Isaiah 30:14, where the term-signifies a reservoir for water, or cistern), were the low tracts of land upon the borders of the Dead Sea, which in the rainy season, when its waters overflowed, became covered with pools (see Robinson, 'Bibl. Res.,' 2:225). These, according to the prophet, should not be healed (better than, "and that which shall not be healed," as in the margin of the Authorized Text), obviously because the waters of the temple-river should not reach them, but should be given to salt. When the waters of the above-mentioned pools have been dried up or evaporated, they leave behind them a deposit of salt (see Robinson, 'Bibl. Res.,' 2:226), and Canon Driver ('Literature of the Old Testament,' p. 276), following Smend, conceives that the above-named miry places and marshes in the vicinity of the Dead Sea were to be allowed to remain as they were on account of the excellent salt which they furnished. (On the supposed (!) excellence of the salt derived from the Dead Sea, Thomson's 'Land and the Book,' p. 616, may be consulted.) If this, however, were the correct import of the prophet's words, then the clause would describe an additional blessing to be enjoyed by the land, viz. that the temple-river would not be permitted to spoil its "salt-pans;" but the manifest intention of the prophet was to indicate a limitation to the life-giving influence of the river, and to signify that places and persons unvisited by its healing stream would be abandoned to incurable destruction. "To give to salt" is in Scripture never expressive of blessing, but always of judgment (see Deuteronomy 29:23; Judges 9:47; Psalm 107:34; Jeremiah 17:6; Zephaniah 2:9).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
But the swamps
בִּצֹּאתָ֧יו (biṣ·ṣō·ṯāw)
Noun - feminine plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 1207: A swamp

and marshes
וּגְבָאָ֛יו (ū·ḡə·ḇā·’āw)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 1360: A reservoir, a marsh

will not
וְלֹ֥א (wə·lō)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

become fresh;
יֵרָפְא֖וּ (yê·rā·p̄ə·’ū)
Verb - Nifal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 7495: To mend, to cure

they will be left
נִתָּֽנוּ׃ (nit·tā·nū)
Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 5414: To give, put, set

for salt.
לְמֶ֥לַח (lə·me·laḥ)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4417: Powder, salt


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