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Contemporary English Version

Ezekiel 12:18

Ezekiel, son of man, shake with fear when you eat, and tremble when you drink.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Instruction;   Pantomime;   Symbols and Similitudes;  

Dictionaries:

- Holman Bible Dictionary - Ezekiel;   Gestures;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Tin;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Care;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“Son of man, eat your bread with trembling and drink your water with anxious shaking.
Hebrew Names Version
Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink your water with trembling and with fearfulness;
King James Version
Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with carefulness;
English Standard Version
"Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink water with trembling and with anxiety.
New American Standard Bible
"Son of man, eat your bread with trembling, and drink your water with quivering and anxiety.
New Century Version
"Human, tremble as you eat your food, and shake with fear as you drink your water.
Amplified Bible
"Son of man, eat your bread with anxiety, and drink your water with trembling and with fear.
World English Bible
Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink your water with trembling and with fearfulness;
Geneva Bible (1587)
Sonne of man, eate thy bread with trembling and drinke thy water with trouble, & with carefulnesse,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Son of man, eat your bread with trembling and drink your water with quivering and anxiety.
Legacy Standard Bible
"Son of man, you shall eat your bread with trembling and drink your water with quivering and anxiety.
Berean Standard Bible
"Son of man, eat your bread with trembling, and drink your water with quivering and anxiety.
Complete Jewish Bible
"Human being, shake as you eat your food; tremble anxiously as you drink your water;
Darby Translation
Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with anxiety;
Easy-to-Read Version
"Son of man, you must act as if you are very frightened. You must shake when you eat your food. You must act worried and afraid when you drink your water.
George Lamsa Translation
Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink your water with trembling and with fear of scarcity;
Good News Translation
"Mortal man," he said, "tremble when you eat, and shake with fear when you drink.
Lexham English Bible
"Son of man, you must eat your food with trembling, and your water with shuddering, and with anxiety you must drink.
Literal Translation
Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink your water with trembling and with anxiety.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thou sonne of man: with a fearfull treblinge shalt thou eate thy bred, with carefulnesse & sorowe shalt thou drynke thy water.
American Standard Version
Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with fearfulness;
Bible in Basic English
Son of man, take your food with shaking fear, and your water with trouble and care;
JPS Old Testament (1917)
'Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with anxiety;
King James Version (1611)
Sonne of man, eate thy bread with quaking, and drinke thy water with trembling and with carefulnesse,
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thou sonne of man, with a fearfull tremblyng shalt thou eate thy bread, with vnquietnesse & sorowe shalt thou drynke thy water.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Son of man, eat thy bread with sorrow, and drink thy water with torment and affliction.
English Revised Version
Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with carefulness;
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and he seide, Thou, sone of man, ete thi breed in disturblyng, but also drynke thi water in haaste and mourening.
Update Bible Version
Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink your water with trembling and with fearfulness;
Webster's Bible Translation
Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with solicitude.
New English Translation
"Son of man, eat your bread with trembling, and drink your water with anxious shaking.
New King James Version
"Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink your water with trembling and anxiety.
New Living Translation
"Son of man, tremble as you eat your food. Shake with fear as you drink your water.
New Life Bible
"Son of man, shake in fear as you eat your bread and drink your water.
New Revised Standard
Mortal, eat your bread with quaking, and drink your water with trembling and with fearfulness;
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Son of man, Thy bread, with trembling, shalt thou eat, - And thy water, in agitation and in fear, shalt thou drink.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Son of man, eat thy bread in trouble and drink thy water in hurry and sorrow.
Revised Standard Version
"Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink water with trembling and with fearfulness;
Young's Literal Translation
`Son of man, thy bread in haste thou dost eat, and thy water with trembling and with fear thou dost drink;

Contextual Overview

17 The Lord said: 18 Ezekiel, son of man, shake with fear when you eat, and tremble when you drink. 19 Tell the people of Israel that I, the Lord , say that someday everyone in Jerusalem will shake when they eat and tremble when they drink. Their country will be destroyed and left empty, because they have been cruel and violent. 20 Every town will lie in ruins, and the land will be a barren desert. Then they will know that I am the Lord .

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Ezekiel 4:16, Ezekiel 4:17, Ezekiel 23:33, Leviticus 26:26, Leviticus 26:36, Deuteronomy 28:48, Deuteronomy 28:65, Job 3:24, Psalms 60:2, Psalms 60:3, Psalms 80:5, Psalms 102:4-9

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 17:12 - that we may eat it Job 6:7 - as my sorrowful meat Job 21:25 - never Lamentations 5:9 - General Daniel 10:7 - but

Cross-References

Genesis 3:13
The Lord God then asked the woman, "What have you done?" "The snake tricked me," she answered. "And I ate some of that fruit."
Genesis 4:10
Then the Lord said: Why have you done this terrible thing? You killed your own brother, and his blood flowed onto the ground. Now his blood is calling out for me to punish you.
Genesis 12:9
Later, Abram started out toward the Southern Desert.
Genesis 12:10
The crops failed, and there was no food anywhere in the land. So Abram and his wife Sarai went to live in Egypt for a while. But just before they got there, he said, "Sarai, you are really beautiful!
Genesis 31:26
and said: Look what you've done! You've tricked me and run off with my daughters like a kidnapper.
Genesis 44:15
who asked them, "What have you done? Didn't you know I could find out?"
Exodus 32:21
Moses asked Aaron, "What did these people do to harm you? Why did you make them sin in this terrible way?"
Joshua 7:19
"Achan," Joshua said, "the Lord God of Israel has decided that you are guilty. Is this true? Tell me what you did, and don't try to hide anything."
1 Samuel 14:43
"Jonathan," Saul exclaimed, "tell me what you did!" "I dipped the end of my walking stick in some honey and ate a little. Now you say I have to die!"
Proverbs 21:1
The Lord controls rulers, just as he determines the course of rivers.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking,.... As one in surprise or fear, or that has got an ague upon him:

and drink thy water with trembling and with carefulness; fearing want of it, or as apprehensive of danger of its being taken away; see Ezekiel 4:16.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Here the sign is the exhibition of such terror as the danger of a siege creates.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 12:18. Eat thy bread with quaking — Assume the manner of a person who is every moment afraid of his life, who has nothing but a morsel of bread to eat, and a little water to drink. Thus signifying the siege, and the straits to which they should be reduced. See this explained, Ezekiel 12:19.


 
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