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the Week of Proper 16 / Ordinary 21
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Brenton's Septuagint

Ezekiel 32:14

Thus shall their waters then be at rest, and their rivers shall flow like oil, saith the Lord,

Bible Study Resources

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Heart;   Repentance;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Poetry;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Egypt;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Oil;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then I will let their waters settleand will make their rivers flow like oil.
Hebrew Names Version
Then will I make their waters clear, and cause their rivers to run like oil, says the Lord GOD.
King James Version
Then will I make their waters deep, and cause their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord God .
English Standard Version
Then I will make their waters clear, and cause their rivers to run like oil, declares the Lord God .
New American Standard Bible
"Then I will make their waters settle, And make their rivers run like oil," Declares the Lord GOD.
New Century Version
So I will let the Egyptians' water become clear. I will cause their rivers to run as smoothly as olive oil, says the Lord God .
Amplified Bible
"Then I will make their waters quiet and clear; I will make their rivers run [slowly and smoothly] like oil," Says the Lord GOD.
World English Bible
Then will I make their waters clear, and cause their rivers to run like oil, says the Lord Yahweh.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then will I make their waters deepe, and cause their riuers to runne like oyle, sayeth the Lord God.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Then I will make their waters settle And will cause their rivers to run like oil," Declares the Lord GOD.
Legacy Standard Bible
Then I will make their waters settleAnd will cause their rivers to run like oil,"Declares Lord Yahweh.
Berean Standard Bible
Then I will let her waters settle and will make her rivers flow like oil, declares the Lord GOD.
Contemporary English Version
The water will be clear, and streams will be calm. I, the Lord God, have spoken.
Complete Jewish Bible
Then I will make their water clear and cause their streams to flow like oil,' says Adonai Elohim .
Darby Translation
Then will I make their waters clear, and cause their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord Jehovah.
Easy-to-Read Version
So I will make the water in Egypt calm. I will cause their rivers to run slowly—they will be slick like oil." This is what the Lord God said.
George Lamsa Translation
Then I will make their waters clear, and cause their rivers to run smooth like oil, says the LORD God.
Good News Translation
I will let your waters settle and become clear and let your rivers run calm. I, the Sovereign Lord , have spoken.
Lexham English Bible
Then I will make their waters settle, and their rivers as the olive oil I will let flow," declares the Lord Yahweh.
Literal Translation
Then I will make their waters sink and cause their rivers to go down like oil, says the Lord Jehovah.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then wil I make their waters cleare, and cause their floudes to runne like oyle, sayeth the LORDE God:
American Standard Version
Then will I make their waters clear, and cause their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord Jehovah.
Bible in Basic English
Then I will make their waters clear and their rivers will be flowing like oil, says the Lord.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Then will I make their waters to settle, and cause their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord GOD.
King James Version (1611)
Then will I make their waters deepe, and cause their riuers to runne like oyle, saith the Lord God.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then wyll I make their waters deepe, and cause their riuers to runne lyke oyle, saith the Lorde God,
English Revised Version
Then will I make their waters clear, and cause their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord GOD.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thanne Y schal yelde the watris of hem clenneste, and Y schal brynge the floodis of hem as oile, seith the Lord God,
Update Bible Version
Then I will make their waters clear, and cause their rivers to run like oil, says the Lord Yahweh.
Webster's Bible Translation
Then will I make their waters deep, and cause their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord GOD.
New English Translation
Then I will make their waters calm, and will make their streams flow like olive oil, declares the sovereign Lord .
New King James Version
Then I will make their waters clear, And make their rivers run like oil,' Says the Lord GOD.
New Living Translation
Then I will let the waters of Egypt become calm again, and they will flow as smoothly as olive oil, says the Sovereign Lord .
New Life Bible
I will make their waters clear and make their rivers flow like oil," says the Lord God.
New Revised Standard
Then I will make their waters clear, and cause their streams to run like oil, says the Lord God .
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then, will I make their waters subside, And their streams - like, will I cause to flow, - Declareth My Lord, Yahweh.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Then will I make their waters clear, and cause their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord God:
Revised Standard Version
Then I will make their waters clear, and cause their rivers to run like oil, says the Lord GOD.
Young's Literal Translation
Then do I cause their waters to sink, And their rivers as oil I cause to go, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.

Contextual Overview

1 And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2 Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharao king of Egypt, and say to him, 3 Thus saith the Lord; I will also cast over thee the nets of many nations, and will bring thee up with my hook: 4 and I will stretch thee upon the earth: the fields shall be covered with thee, and I will cause all the birds of the sky to settle upon thee, and I will fill with thee all the wild beasts of the earth. 5 And I will cast thy flesh upon the mountains, and will saturate them with thy blood. 6 And the land shall be drenched with thy dung, because of thy multitude upon the mountains: I will fill the valleys with thee. 7 And I will veil the heavens when thou art extinguished, and will darken the stars thereof; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light. 8 All the bodies that give light in the sky, shall be darkened over thee, and I will bring darkness upon the earth, saith the Lord God. 9 And I will provoke to anger the heart of many people, when I shall lead thee captive among the nations, to a land which thou hast not know. 10 And many nations shall mourn over thee, and their kings shall be utterly amazed, when my sword flies in their faces, as they wait for their own fall from the day of thy fall.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

and cause: The neighbouring countries shall be in a state of quietness, like a river that smoothly glides along, having no longer a political crocodile to foul their waters, or to disturb their peace.

Cross-References

Genesis 30:43
And the man became very rich, and he had many cattle, and oxen, and servants, and maid-servants, and camels, and asses.
Genesis 31:9
So God has taken away all the cattle of your father, and given them to me.
Genesis 31:16
All the wealth and the glory which God has taken from our father, it shall be our’s and our children’s; now then do whatsoever God has said to thee.
Deuteronomy 8:18
But thou shalt remember the Lord thy God, that he gives thee strength to get wealth; even that he may establish his covenant, which the Lord sware to thy fathers, as at this day.
1 Samuel 25:2
And there was a man in Maon, and his flocks were in Carmel, and he was a very great man; and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand she-goats: and he happened to be shearing his flock in Carmel.
Job 1:3
And his cattle consisted of seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred she-asses in the pastures, and a very great household, and he had a great husbandry on the earth; and that man was most noble of the men of the east.
Job 42:12
And the Lord blessed the latter end of Job, more than the beginning: and his cattle were fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, a thousand she-asses of the pastures.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then will l make their waters deep,.... Either the water, of Egypt literally, the waters of the Nile: no canals being cut from it, to carry the water to the several parts of the land, the land being depopulated, and no business done: or, figuratively, other nations, compared to waters for their numbers, who before had been disturbed by the Egyptians; but now they being destroyed, these would be at ease, like troubled waters, which subside, and: become deep and clear, when there is none to trouble them:

and cause their, rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord God; very slowly, as if, they were mourning the unhappy condition of the land; or smoothly, clearly, undisturbed, as before. The Targum is,

"there will I cause the people to rest, and I will lead their kings quietly, saith the Lord God.''

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A promise of a return of God’s favor. This concerns not the restoration of Egypt’s original power, but the establishment of the Divine Ruler in the place of a pagan God-opposing power.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 32:14. Cause their rivers to run like oil — Bring the whole state into quietness, there being no longer a political hippopotamus to foul the waters-to disturb the peace of the country.


 
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