10 And then the [a]fishers shall stand upon it, and from En Gedi even unto [b]En Eglaim, they shall spread out their nets: for their fish shall be according to their kinds, as the fish of [c]the main sea, exceeding many.

11 But [d]the miry places thereof, and the marshes thereof shall not be wholesome: they shall be made salt pits.

12 And by this river upon the brink thereof, on this side, and on that side shall grow all [e]fruitful trees, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof fail: it shall bring forth new fruit according to his months, because their waters run out of the Sanctuary: and the fruit thereof shall be meat, and the leaf thereof shall be for [f]medicine.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 47:10 Signifying, that when God bestoweth his mercies in such abundance, the ministers shall by their preaching win many.
  2. Ezekiel 47:10 Which were cities at the corners of the salt or dead sea.
  3. Ezekiel 47:10 They shall be here of all sorts, and in as great abundance as in the great Ocean where they are bred.
  4. Ezekiel 47:11 That is, the wicked and reprobate.
  5. Ezekiel 47:12 Or, tree for meat.
  6. Ezekiel 47:12 Or, for bruises and sores.

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