Bible verse
Then I will let her waters settle and will make her rivers flow like oil,’ declares the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel 32:14 · BSB
The verses around it, from Ezekiel 32.
10 I will cause many peoples to be appalled over you, and their kings will shudder in horror because of you when I brandish My sword before them. On the day of your downfall each of them will tremble every moment for his life.’
11 For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘The sword of the king of Babylon will come against you!
12 I will make your hordes fall by the swords of the mighty, the most ruthless of all nations. They will ravage the pride of Egypt and all her multitudes will be destroyed.
13 I will slaughter all her cattle beside the abundant waters. No human foot will muddy them again, and no cattle hooves will disturb them.
14 Then I will let her waters settle and will make her rivers flow like oil,’ declares the Lord GOD.
15 ‘When I make the land of Egypt a desolation and empty it of all that filled it, when I strike down all who live there, then they will know that I am the LORD.’
16 This is the lament they will chant for her; the daughters of the nations will chant it. Over Egypt and all her multitudes they will chant it, declares the Lord GOD.”
17 In the twelfth year, on the fifteenth day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
18 “Son of man, wail for the multitudes of Egypt, and consign her and the daughters of the mighty nations to the depths of the earth with those who descend to the Pit:
KJV
Then will I make their waters deep, and cause their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord GOD.
ASV
Then will I make their waters clear, and cause their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord Jehovah.
ERV
Then will I make their waters clear, and cause their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord GOD.
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