Ezekiel 47:8

World English Bible (2000)

Then he said to me, These waters issue forth toward the eastern region, and shall go down into the Arabah; and they shall go toward the sea; into the sea [shall the waters go] which were made to issue forth; and the waters shall be healed.

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  • Josh 3:16 : 16 that the waters which came down from above stood, and rose up in one heap, a great way off, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan; and those that went down toward the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, were wholly cut off. Then the people passed over right against Jericho.
  • Deut 3:17 : 17 the Arabah also, and the Jordan and the border [of it], from Chinnereth even to the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah eastward.
  • Isa 41:17-19 : 17 The poor and needy seek water, and there is none. Their tongue fails for thirst. I, Yahweh, will answer them. I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them. 18 I will open rivers on the bare heights, and springs in the midst of the valleys. I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water. 19 I will put cedar, acacia, myrtle, and oil trees in the wilderness. I will set fir trees, pine, and box trees together in the desert;
  • 2 Kgs 2:19-22 : 19 The men of the city said to Elisha, "Behold, please, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord sees; but the water is bad, and the land miscarries." 20 He said, "Bring me a new jar, and put salt in it." They brought it to him. 21 He went out to the spring of the waters, and threw salt into it, and said, "Thus says Yahweh, 'I have healed these waters. There shall not be from there any more death or miscarrying.'" 22 So the waters were healed to this day, according to the word of Elisha which he spoke.
  • Isa 44:3-5 : 3 For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and streams on the dry ground. I will pour my Spirit on your seed, and my blessing on your offspring: 4 and they will spring up among the grass, as willows by the watercourses. 5 One will say, 'I am Yahweh's;' and another will be called by the name of Jacob; and another will write with his hand 'to Yahweh,' and honor the name of Israel."
  • Isa 35:7 : 7 The burning sand will become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water. Grass with reeds and rushes will be in the habitation of jackals, where they lay.
  • Isa 43:20 : 20 The animals of the field shall honor me, the jackals and the ostriches; because I give water in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen,
  • Deut 4:49 : 49 and all the Arabah beyond the Jordan eastward, even to the sea of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah.
  • Isa 11:6-9 : 6 The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the young goat; The calf, the young lion, and the fattened calf together; and a little child will lead them. 7 The cow and the bear will graze. Their young ones will lie down together. The lion will eat straw like the ox. 8 The nursing child will play near a cobra's hole, and the weaned child will put his hand on the viper's den. 9 They will not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth will be full of the knowledge of Yahweh, as the waters cover the sea.
  • Isa 35:1 : 1 The wilderness and the dry land will be glad. The desert will rejoice and blossom like a rose.
  • Isa 49:9 : 9 saying to those who are bound, 'Come out!'; to those who are in darkness, 'Show yourselves!' "They shall feed in the ways, and on all bare heights shall be their pasture.
  • Jer 31:9 : 9 They shall come with weeping; and with petitions will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they shall not stumble; for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
  • Mal 1:11 : 11 For from the rising of the sun even to the going down of the same, my name is great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering: for my name is great among the nations," says Yahweh of Armies.
  • Matt 13:15 : 15 for this people's heart has grown callous, their ears are dull of hearing, they have closed their eyes; or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and should turn again; and I would heal them.'

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  • Ezek 47:9-12
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    9 It shall happen, that every living creature which swarms, in every place where the rivers come, shall live; and there shall be a very great multitude of fish; for these waters are come there, and [the waters of the sea] shall be healed, and everything shall live wherever the river comes.

    10 It shall happen, that fishermen shall stand by it: from En Gedi even to En Eglaim shall be a place for the spreading of nets; their fish shall be after their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many.

    11 But the miry places of it, and its marshes, shall not be healed; they shall be given up to salt.

    12 By the river on its bank, on this side and on that side, shall grow every tree for food, whose leaf shall not wither, neither shall its fruit fail: it shall bring forth new fruit every month, because its waters issue out of the sanctuary; and its fruit shall be for food, and its leaf for healing.

  • Zech 14:8
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    8 It will happen in that day, that living waters will go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the eastern sea, and half of them toward the western sea; in summer and in winter will it be.

  • Ezek 47:1-7
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    1 He brought me back to the door of the house; and behold, waters issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward; (for the forefront of the house was toward the east;) and the waters came down from under, from the right side of the house, on the south of the altar.

    2 Then he brought me out by the way of the gate northward, and led me round by the way outside to the outer gate, by the way of [the gate] that looks toward the east; and behold, there ran out waters on the right side.

    3 When the man went forth eastward with the line in his hand, he measured one thousand cubits, and he caused me to pass through the waters, waters that were to the ankles.

    4 Again he measured one thousand, and caused me to pass through the waters, waters that were to the knees. Again he measured one thousand, and caused me to pass through [the waters], waters that were to the waist.

    5 Afterward he measured one thousand; [and it was] a river that I could not pass through; for the waters were risen, waters to swim in, a river that could not be passed through.

    6 He said to me, Son of man, have you seen [this]? Then he brought me, and caused me to return to the bank of the river.

    7 Now when I had returned, behold, on the bank of the river were very many trees on the one side and on the other.

  • 2 Kgs 2:21-22
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    74%

    21 He went out to the spring of the waters, and threw salt into it, and said, "Thus says Yahweh, 'I have healed these waters. There shall not be from there any more death or miscarrying.'"

    22 So the waters were healed to this day, according to the word of Elisha which he spoke.

  • Isa 19:5-7
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    5 The waters will fail from the sea, and the river will be wasted and become dry.

    6 The rivers will become foul. The streams of Egypt will be diminished and dried up. The reeds and flags will wither away.

    7 The meadows by the Nile, by the brink of the Nile, and all the sown fields of the Nile, will become dry, be driven away, and be no more.

  • Eccl 1:7
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    7 All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full. To the place where the rivers flow, there they flow again.

  • Ezek 32:14
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    14 Then will I make their waters clear, and cause their rivers to run like oil, says the Lord Yahweh.

  • Rev 22:1
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    1 He showed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb,

  • Deut 8:7
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    7 For Yahweh your God brings you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of springs, and underground water flowing into valleys and hills;

  • Exod 7:17-18
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    17 Thus says Yahweh, "In this you shall know that I am Yahweh. Behold, I will strike with the rod that is in my hand on the waters which are in the river, and they shall be turned to blood.

    18 The fish that are in the river shall die, and the river shall become foul; and the Egyptians shall loathe to drink water from the river."'"

  • Isa 41:18
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    18 I will open rivers on the bare heights, and springs in the midst of the valleys. I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.

  • Isa 35:6-7
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    6 Then the lame man will leap like a deer, and the tongue of the mute will sing; for waters will break out in the wilderness, and streams in the desert.

    7 The burning sand will become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water. Grass with reeds and rushes will be in the habitation of jackals, where they lay.

  • Isa 44:27
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    27 who says to the deep, 'Be dry,' and 'I will dry up your rivers;'

  • Joel 3:18
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    18 It will happen in that day, that the mountains will drop down sweet wine, the hills will flow with milk, all the brooks of Judah will flow with waters, and a fountain will come forth from the house of Yahweh, and will water the valley of Shittim.

  • Josh 3:16
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    16 that the waters which came down from above stood, and rose up in one heap, a great way off, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan; and those that went down toward the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, were wholly cut off. Then the people passed over right against Jericho.

  • Ezek 47:20
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    20 The west side shall be the great sea, from the [south] border as far as over against the entrance of Hamath. This is the west side.

  • John 7:38
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    38 He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water."

  • Isa 37:25
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    25 I have dug and drunk water, and with the sole of my feet I will dry up all the rivers of Egypt."

  • Isa 43:16
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    16 Thus says Yahweh, who makes a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters;

  • Ps 114:5
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    5 What was it, you sea, that you fled? You Jordan, that you turned back?

  • Ps 107:33
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    33 He turns rivers into a desert, water springs into a thirsty ground,

  • Job 14:11
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    11 As the waters fail from the sea, and the river wastes and dries up,

  • Isa 48:21
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    21 They didn't thirst when he led them through the deserts; he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them; he split the rock also, and the waters gushed out.

  • Ezek 37:2
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    2 He caused me to pass by them all around: and behold, there were very many in the open valley; and behold, they were very dry.

  • Isa 8:7
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    7 now therefore, behold, the Lord brings upon them the mighty flood waters of the River: the king of Assyria and all his glory. It will come up over all its channels, and go over all its banks.

  • Ps 107:35
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    35 He turns a desert into a pool of water, and a dry land into water springs.

  • Ps 114:3
    69%

    3 The sea saw it, and fled. The Jordan was driven back.

  • 2 Kgs 19:24
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    24 I have dug and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt.'

  • Ezek 31:4
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    4 The waters nourished it, the deep made it to grow: its rivers ran all around its plantation; and it sent out its channels to all the trees of the field.

  • Ezek 47:18
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    18 The east side, between Hauran and Damascus and Gilead, and the land of Israel, shall be the Jordan; from the [north] border to the east sea you shall measure. This is the east side.

  • Gen 2:10
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    10 A river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it was parted, and became four heads.

  • Jer 51:36
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    36 Therefore thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will plead your cause, and take vengeance for you; and I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry.

  • Nah 1:4
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    4 He rebukes the sea, and makes it dry, and dries up all the rivers. Bashan languishes, and Carmel; and the flower of Lebanon languishes.

  • Isa 42:15
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    15 I will destroy mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs. I will make the rivers islands, and will dry up the pools.