Ezekiel 32:14 Then I will let her waters settle and make her streams flow like oil, declares the Sovereign LORD.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
Then I will let her waters settle and make her streams flow like oil, declares the Sovereign LORD.

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 will cause their rivers to run like oil," Declares the Lord GOD.

King James Bible
Then will I make their waters deep, and cause their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord GOD.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Then I will let their waters settle and will make their rivers flow like oil. This is the declaration of the Lord GOD.

International Standard Version
That's when I'll make their waterways flow smoothly, and their rivers flow like olive oil,' declares the Lord GOD."

American Standard Version
Then will I make their waters clear, and cause their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord Jehovah.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then will I make their waters clear, and cause their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord God:

Darby Bible Translation
Then will I make their waters clear, and cause their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord Jehovah.

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.

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

32:1-16 It becomes us to weep and tremble for those who will not weep and tremble for themselves. Great oppressors are, in God's account, no better than beasts of prey. Those who admire the pomp of this world, will wonder at the ruin of that pomp; which to those who know the vanity of all things here below, is no surprise. When others are ruined by sin, we have to fear, knowing ourselves guilty. The instruments of the desolation are formidable. And the instances of the desolation are frightful. The waters of Egypt shall run like oil, which signifies there should be universal sadness and heaviness upon the whole nation. God can soon empty those of this world's goods who have the greatest fulness of them. By enlarging the matters of our joy, we increase the occasions of our sorrow. How weak and helpless, as to God, are the most powerful of mankind! The destruction of Egypt was a type of the destruction of the enemies of Christ.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

14. make their waters deep—rather, "make … to subside"; literally, "sink" [Fairbairn].

like oil—emblem of quietness. No longer shall they descend violently on other countries as the overflowing Nile, but shall be still and sluggish in political action.