a fruitful land into a salty waste, because of the wickedness of its inhabitants.
Ezekiel 47:11 - Revised Standard Version But its swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they are to be left for salt. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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 salty waste, because of the wickedness of its inhabitants.
He is like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see any good come. He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land.
And on the banks, on both sides of the river, there will grow all kinds of trees for food. Their leaves will not wither nor their fruit fail, but they will bear fresh fruit every month, because the water for them flows from the sanctuary. Their fruit will be for food, and their leaves for healing.”
the whole land brimstone and salt, and a burnt-out waste, unsown, and growing nothing, where no grass can sprout, an overthrow like that of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in his anger and wrath —
But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the polluted, as for murderers, fornicators, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their lot shall be in the lake that burns with fire and sulphur, which is the second death.”
Let the evildoer still do evil, and the filthy still be filthy, and the righteous still do right, and the holy still be holy.”
And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; he took the city, and killed the people that were in it; and he razed the city and sowed it with salt.