A fruitful land into a salt desert, For the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
Ezekiel 47:11 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 But the miry places thereof, and the marishes thereof, shall not be healed; they shall be given up to salt. Flere versionerKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But its swamps and marshes will not become wholesome for animal life; they shall [as the river subsides] be left encrusted with salt and given over to it. American Standard Version (1901) But the miry places thereof, and the marshes thereof, shall not be healed; they shall be given up to salt. Common English Bible Its marshes and swamps won’t be made fresh (they are left for salt), Catholic Public Domain Version But on its shore and in the marshes, they will not be healed. For these will be made into salt pits. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But on the shore thereof, and in the fenny places they shall not be healed, because they shall be turned into saltpits. |
A fruitful land into a salt desert, For the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
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.
And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow every tree for meat, 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 meat, and the leaf thereof for healing.
and that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and a burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
But for the fearful, and unbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part shall be in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone; which is the second death.
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.
And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and slew the people that was therein: and he beat down the city, and sowed it with salt.