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New King James Version

Ezekiel 4:17

that they may lack bread and water, and be dismayed with one another, 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

Christian Standard Bible®
for lack of bread and water. Everyone will be devastated and waste away because of their iniquity.
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 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 for yourself wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt; put them into one vessel, and make bread of them for yourself. During the number of days that you lie on your side, three hundred and ninety days, you shall eat it. 10 And your food which you eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day; from time to time you shall eat it. 11 You shall also drink water by measure, one-sixth of a hin; from time to time you shall drink. 12 And you shall eat it as barley cakes; and bake it using fuel of human waste in their sight." 13 Then the LORD said, "So shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, where I will drive them." 14 So I said, "Ah, Lord GOD! Indeed I have never defiled myself from my youth till now; I have never eaten what died of itself or was torn by beasts, nor has abominable flesh ever come into my mouth." 15 Then He said to me, "See, I am giving you cow dung instead of human waste, and you shall prepare your bread over it." 16 Moreover He said to me, "Son of man, surely I will cut off the supply of bread in Jerusalem; they shall eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and shall drink water by measure and with dread, 17 that they may lack bread and water, and be dismayed with one another, 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
Abel also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat. And the LORD respected Abel and his offering,
Genesis 4:11
So now you are cursed from the earth, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.
Genesis 5:18
Jared lived one hundred and sixty-two years, and begot Enoch.
Genesis 5:22
After he begot Methuselah, Enoch walked with God three hundred years, and had sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:4
And they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth."
2 Samuel 18:18
Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and set up a pillar for himself, which is in the King's Valley. For he said, "I have no son to keep my name in remembrance." He called the pillar after his own name. And to this day it is called Absalom's Monument.
Psalms 49:11
Their inner thought is that their houses will last forever, [fn] Their dwelling places to all generations;They call their lands after their own names.
Daniel 4:30
The king spoke, saying, "Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for a royal dwelling by my mighty power and for the honor of my majesty?"

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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