Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version for food and water will be scarce. They will be appalled at the sight of each other and will waste away because of their sin. New Living Translation Lacking food and water, people will look at one another in terror, and they will waste away under their punishment. English Standard Version I will do this that they may lack bread and water, and look at one another in dismay, and rot away because of their punishment. Berean Standard Bible So they will lack food and water; they will be appalled at the sight of one another wasting away in their iniquity. King James Bible That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity. New King James Version that they may lack bread and water, and be dismayed with one another, and waste away because of their iniquity. New American Standard Bible because bread and water will be scarce; and they will tremble with one another and waste away in their guilt. NASB 1995 because bread and water will be scarce; and they will be appalled with one another and waste away in their iniquity. NASB 1977 because bread and water will be scarce; and they will be appalled with one another and waste away in their iniquity. Legacy Standard Bible because bread and water will be lacking; and they will be in desolation with one another and rot away in their iniquity. Amplified Bible because bread and water will be scarce; and they will look at one another in dismay and waste away [in punishment] for their wickedness. Christian Standard Bible for lack of bread and water. Everyone will be devastated and waste away because of their iniquity. Holman Christian Standard Bible So they will lack bread and water; everyone will be devastated and waste away because of their iniquity.” American Standard Version that they may want bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity. Contemporary English Version Everyone will be shocked at what is happening, and, because of their sins, they will die a slow death." English Revised Version that they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and pine away in their iniquity. GOD'S WORD® Translation They will be shocked at the sight of each other because of the lack of food and water. They will waste away because of their sin." Good News Translation They will run out of bread and water; they will be in despair, and they will waste away because of their sins." International Standard Version Indeed, they'll need bread and water, but everyone will be panic-stricken as they waste away in their iniquity." Majority Standard Bible So they will lack food and water; they will be appalled at the sight of one another wasting away in their iniquity. NET Bible because they will lack bread and water. Each one will be terrified, and they will rot for their iniquity. New Heart English Bible that they may want bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity. Webster's Bible Translation That they may want bread and water, and be astonished one with another, and consume away for their iniquity. World English Bible that they may lack bread and water, be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity. Literal Translations Literal Standard Versionso that they lack bread and water, and have been astonished with one another, and been consumed in their iniquity.” Young's Literal Translation so that they lack bread and water, and have been astonished one with another, and been consumed in their iniquity. Smith's Literal Translation So that they shall want bread and water, and they were astonished, a man and his brother, and they were melted in their iniquity. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleSo that when bread and water fail, every man may fall against his brother, and they may pine away in their iniquities. Catholic Public Domain Version So then, when bread and water fail, each one may fall against his brother. And they shall waste away in their iniquities.” New American Bible Because they lack bread and water they shall be devastated; each and every one will waste away because of their guilt. New Revised Standard Version Lacking bread and water, they will look at one another in dismay, and waste away under their punishment. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleAnd they shall lack bread and water, and they shall perish one with another, and shall be consumed in their iniquity. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated And they shall be needy for bread and for water, and a man and his brothers shall come to an end, and they shall be consumed in their evil OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917that they may want bread and water, and be appalled one with another, and pine away in their iniquity. Brenton Septuagint Translation that they may want bread and water; and a man and his brother shall be brought to ruin, and they shall pine away in their iniquities. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context The Defiled Bread…16Then He told me, “Son of man, I am going to cut off the supply of food in Jerusalem. They will anxiously eat bread rationed by weight, and in despair they will drink water by measure. 17So they will lack food and water; they will be appalled at the sight of one another wasting away in their iniquity. Cross References Leviticus 26:26 When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and dole out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied. Isaiah 3:1 For behold, the Lord GOD of Hosts is about to remove from Jerusalem and Judah both supply and support: the whole supply of food and water, Jeremiah 14:1-6 This is the word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought: / “Judah mourns and her gates languish. Her people wail for the land, and a cry goes up from Jerusalem. / The nobles send their servants for water; they go to the cisterns, but find no water; their jars return empty. They are ashamed and humiliated; they cover their heads. ... Lamentations 4:4-10 The nursing infant’s tongue clings in thirst to the roof of his mouth. Little children beg for bread, but no one gives them any. / Those who once ate delicacies are destitute in the streets; those brought up in crimson huddle in ash heaps. / The punishment of the daughter of my people is greater than that of Sodom, which was overthrown in an instant without a hand turned to help her. ... Amos 4:6 “I afflicted all your cities with cleanness of teeth and all your towns with lack of bread, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD. Deuteronomy 28:48 you will serve your enemies the LORD will send against you in famine, thirst, nakedness, and destitution. He will place an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you. 2 Kings 6:25 So there was a great famine in Samaria. Indeed, they besieged the city so long that a donkey’s head sold for eighty shekels of silver, and a quarter cab of dove’s dung sold for five shekels of silver. Psalm 105:16 He called down famine on the land and cut off all their supplies of food. Isaiah 9:20 They carve out what is on the right, but they are still hungry; they eat what is on the left, but they are still not satisfied. Each one devours the flesh of his own offspring. Jeremiah 15:2 If they ask you, ‘Where shall we go?’ you are to tell them that this is what the LORD says: ‘Those destined for death, to death; those destined for the sword, to the sword; those destined for famine, to famine; and those destined for captivity, to captivity.’ Lamentations 5:9-10 We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness. / Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger. Matthew 24:7 Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. Luke 21:11 There will be great earthquakes, famines, and pestilences in various places, along with fearful sights and great signs from heaven. Revelation 6:5-6 And when the Lamb opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come!” Then I looked and saw a black horse, and its rider held in his hand a pair of scales. / And I heard what sounded like a voice from among the four living creatures, saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius, and do not harm the oil and wine.” Mark 13:8 Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places, as well as famines. These are the beginning of birth pains. Treasury of Scripture That they may want bread and water, and be astonished one with another, and consume away for their iniquity. and consume Ezekiel 24:23 And your tires shall be upon your heads, and your shoes upon your feet: ye shall not mourn nor weep; but ye shall pine away for your iniquities, and mourn one toward another. Leviticus 26:39 And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them. Jump to Previous Appalled Astonied Astonished Bread Consume Consumed Dismay Dismayed Fail Food Iniquity Lack Need Pine Punishment Scarce Sight Want Waste Wasting Water WonderingJump to Next Appalled Astonied Astonished Bread Consume Consumed Dismay Dismayed Fail Food Iniquity Lack Need Pine Punishment Scarce Sight Want Waste Wasting Water WonderingEzekiel 4 1. Under type of a siege is shown the time from the defection of Jeroboam to captivity9. By the provision of the siege, is shown the hardness of the famine So they will lack food and water This phrase highlights the dire consequences of disobedience to God. The Hebrew root for "lack" is "ḥāsēr," which conveys a sense of deficiency or want. In the historical context of Ezekiel, this prophecy was a warning to the Israelites of the impending siege of Jerusalem, where scarcity of resources would be a harsh reality. The lack of food and water symbolizes not only physical deprivation but also spiritual famine, as turning away from God leads to a lack of spiritual nourishment. they will be appalled at the sight of one another and waste away in their iniquity
Hebrew Soלְמַ֥עַן (lə·ma·‘an) Conjunction Strong's 4616: Purpose -- intent they will lack יַחְסְר֖וּ (yaḥ·sə·rū) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural Strong's 2637: To lack, need, be lacking, decrease food לֶ֣חֶם (le·ḥem) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 3899: Food, bread, grain and water; וָמָ֑יִם (wā·mā·yim) Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural Strong's 4325: Water, juice, urine, semen they will be appalled וְנָשַׁ֙מּוּ֙ (wə·nā·šam·mū) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural Strong's 8074: To stun, devastate, stupefy [over the sight of] one אִ֣ישׁ (’îš) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 376: A man as an individual, a male person another וְאָחִ֔יו (wə·’ā·ḥîw) Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular Strong's 251: A brother, ) wasting away וְנָמַ֖קּוּ (wə·nā·maq·qū) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural Strong's 4743: To melt, to flow, dwindle, vanish in their iniquity. בַּעֲוֺנָֽם׃ (ba·‘ă·wō·nām) Preposition-b | Noun - common singular construct | third person masculine plural Strong's 5771: Iniquity, guilt, punishment for iniquity Links Ezekiel 4:17 NIVEzekiel 4:17 NLT Ezekiel 4:17 ESV Ezekiel 4:17 NASB Ezekiel 4:17 KJV Ezekiel 4:17 BibleApps.com Ezekiel 4:17 Biblia Paralela Ezekiel 4:17 Chinese Bible Ezekiel 4:17 French Bible Ezekiel 4:17 Catholic Bible OT Prophets: Ezekiel 4:17 That they may want bread and water (Ezek. Eze Ezk) |
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