and a fruitful land into a salt waste, because of the evil of its inhabitants.
Ezekiel 47:11 - Tree of Life Version Its swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they will be set aside 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. |
and a fruitful land into a salt waste, because of the evil of its inhabitants.
For he will be like a bush in the desert. He cannot see goodness when it comes, but will dwell in parched places in the wilderness— a salt land where no one lives.
On the river, on its bank, on this side and that side, will grow every kind of tree for food. Its leaf will not wither; its fruit will not fail; it will bear new fruit every month, because its water flows out from the Sanctuary. Its fruit will be for food and its leaf will be for healing.”
“All the nations will say, ‘Why has Adonai done this to this land? Why this great burning anger?’
But for the cowardly and faithless and detestable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars—their lot is in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”
Let the evildoer still do evil, and the filthy still be filthy, and the righteous still do righteousness, and the holy still be holy.
So Abimelech fought against the city all that day, captured the city and killed the people that were in it. Then he razed the city and sowed it with salt.