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Sunday, August 24th, 2025
the Week of Proper 16 / Ordinary 21
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Christian Standard Bible ®

Ezekiel 4:17

for lack of bread and water. Everyone will be devastated and waste away because of their iniquity.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Famine;   Instruction;   Symbols and Similitudes;   Thompson Chain Reference - Pining Away;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Famine;  

Dictionaries:

- Holman Bible Dictionary - Beyond the River;   Ezekiel;   Gestures;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Consume;   Pining;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
that they may want bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.
King James Version
That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.
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.
New American Standard Bible
because bread and water will be scarce; and they will tremble with one another and waste away in their guilt.
New Century Version
This is because bread and water will be hard to find. The people will be shocked at the sight of each other, and they will become weak because of their sin.
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.
World English Bible
that they may want bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Because that bread and water shall faile, they shalbe astonied one with another, and shall consume away for their iniquitie.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
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.
Berean Standard Bible
So they will lack food and water; they will be appalled over the sight of one another wasting 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."
Complete Jewish Bible
Finally, due to lack of bread and water, they will stare at each other in shock, wasting away because of their guilt."
Darby Translation
because bread and water shall fail them, and they shall be astonied one with another, and waste away in their iniquity.
Easy-to-Read Version
That is because there will not be enough food and water for everyone. They will be terrified as they watch each other wasting away because of their sins.
George Lamsa Translation
And they shall lack bread and water, and they shall perish one with another, and shall be consumed in their iniquity.
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."
Lexham English Bible
so that they will lack food and water, and they will be appalled with one another, and they will waste away because of their guilt.
Literal Translation
because they will lack bread and water, and each one be stunned with his brother. And they will waste away in their iniquity.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And when they haue nomore bred ner water, one shal be destroyed with another, and famish awaye for their wickednesse.
American Standard Version
that they may want bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.
Bible in Basic English
So that they may be in need of bread and water and be wondering at one another, wasting away in their sin.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
that they may want bread and water, and be appalled one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.
King James Version (1611)
That they may want bread and water, & be astonied one with an other, and consume away for their iniquitie.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
That they may cause a lacke of bread and water, and be astonied one at another, and be consumed in their iniquitie.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
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.
English Revised Version
that they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
that whanne breed and watir failen, eche man falle doun to his brother, and thei faile in her wickidnessis.
Update Bible Version
that they may want bread and water, and be dismayed a man and his brother, 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.
New English Translation
because they will lack bread and water. Each one will be terrified, and they will rot 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 Living Translation
Lacking food and water, people will look at one another in terror, and they will waste away under their punishment.
New Life Bible
because there will not be enough bread and water. They will look at one another in fear, and waste away in their sin.
New Revised Standard
Lacking bread and water, they will look at one another in dismay, and waste away under their punishment.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
that they may lack bread and water and be astonished one with another, and pine away in their punishment.
Douay-Rheims Bible
So that when bread and water fail, every man may fall against his brother, and they may pine away in their iniquities.
Revised Standard Version
I will do this that they may lack bread and water, and look at one another in dismay, and waste away under their punishment.
Young's Literal Translation
so that they lack bread and water, and have been astonished one with another, and been consumed in their iniquity.

Contextual Overview

9“Also take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt. Put them in a single container and make them into bread for yourself. You are to eat it during the number of days you lie on your side, 390 days. 10The food you eat each day will weigh eight ounces; you will eat it at set times. 11You will also drink a ration of water, a sixth of a gallon, which you will drink at set times. 12You will eat it as you would a barley cake and bake it over dried human excrement in their sight.” 13The Lord said, “This is how the Israelites will eat their bread—ceremonially unclean—among the nations where I will banish them.” 14But I said, “Oh, Lord God, I have never been defiled. From my youth until now I have not eaten anything that died naturally or was mauled by wild beasts. And impure meat has never entered my mouth.” 15He replied to me, “Look, I will let you use cow dung instead of human excrement, and you can make your bread over that.” 16He said to me, “Son of man, I am going to cut off the supply of bread in Jerusalem. They will anxiously eat food they have weighed out and in dread drink rationed water 17for lack of bread and water. Everyone will be devastated and waste away because of their iniquity.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

and consume: Ezekiel 24:23, Leviticus 26:39

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 28:28 - General Deuteronomy 28:48 - in hunger Job 21:25 - never Psalms 80:5 - General Ecclesiastes 5:17 - he eateth Isaiah 3:1 - the stay Lamentations 5:9 - General Ezekiel 12:18 - General Micah 6:14 - eat Haggai 1:6 - eat

Cross-References

Genesis 4:4
And Abel also presented an offering—some of the firstborn of his flock and their fat portions. The Lord had regard for Abel and his offering,
Genesis 4:11
So now you are cursed, alienated from the ground that opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood you have shed.
Genesis 5:18
Jared was 162 years old when he fathered Enoch.
Genesis 5:22
And after he fathered Methuselah, Enoch walked with God 300 years and fathered other sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:4
And they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the sky. Let us make a name for ourselves; otherwise, we will be scattered throughout the earth.”
2 Samuel 18:18
When he was alive, Absalom had taken a pillar and raised it up for himself in the King’s Valley, since he thought, “I have no son to preserve the memory of my name.” So he named the pillar after himself. It is still called Absalom’s Monument today.
Psalms 49:11
Their graves are their permanent homes,their dwellings from generation to generation,though they have named estates after themselves.
Daniel 4:30
the king exclaimed, “Is this not Babylon the Great that I have built to be a royal residence by my vast power and for my majestic glory?”

Gill's Notes on the Bible

That they may want bread and water,.... Or, "because they shall want" l c. therefore they shall eat the one, and drink the other, by weight or they shall do this till there shall be none to eat and drink:

and be astonished one with another; when they shall find they cannot relieve one another; and not knowing what method to take for the support of nature:

and consume away for their iniquity; their flesh upon them black through famine, putrid and noisome; and they wasting, pining, and consuming; reduced to skin and bones; and disagreeable to look upon; and all because of their sins and iniquities.

l למען "eo quod", Munster, Vatablus; "propterea", Tigurine version.


 
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