And it shall come to pass, that every thing that liveth, which moveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live: and there shall be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters shall come thither: for they shall be healed; and every thing shall live whither the river cometh.

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And then every living creature with which it teems,[a] to every place the waters come[b] it will live; and very many fish will live because these waters came there, and so the water will be healed[c] and everything will be alive everywhere that[d] the stream will come.[e]

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 47:9 Or “swarms”
  2. Ezekiel 47:9 Literally “to all of which they come there the water”
  3. Ezekiel 47:9 Or “fresh”
  4. Ezekiel 47:9 Literally “all that”
  5. Ezekiel 47:9 Literally “that it will come there the stream”

Swarms of living creatures will live wherever the river flows. There will be large numbers of fish, because this water flows there and makes the salt water fresh; so where the river flows everything will live.(A)

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