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When I returned there, I noticed that on the banks of the river there were a large number of trees, on both sides.

Then he said to me, “These waters are flowing out to the eastern part of the land. They go down to the Arabah and go into the sea,[a] into the sea whose waters are unusable,[b] and then the waters of the sea are made fresh.[c] Every living creature that swarms can live wherever the stream flows. There will be a large number of fish because these waters have come there, and the waters of the sea have been made fresh, so every living creature can live everywhere the river goes.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 47:8 That is, the Dead Sea
  2. Ezekiel 47:8 The meaning of the phrase translated into the sea whose waters are unusable is uncertain. The Hebrew seems to read to the sea [the waters] which had been brought out.
  3. Ezekiel 47:8 Literally are healed