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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. 10 There will be fishermen standing beside it from En Gedi to En Eglaim, and there will be places for them to spread their nets to dry. There will be all kinds of fish there, like the fish of the Great Sea[d]—so very many.

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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
  4. Ezekiel 47:10 The Mediterranean Sea