Ezekiel 4:17
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So that when bread and water fail, every man may fall against his brother, and they may pine away in their iniquities.

and consume

Ezekiel 24:23 You shall have crowns on your heads, and shoes on your feet: you shall not lament nor weep, but you shall pine away for your iniquities, and every one shall sigh with his brother.

Leviticus 26:39 And if of them also some remain, they shall pine away in their iniquities, in the land of their enemies: and they shall be afflicted for the sins of their fathers, and their own.

Context
The Defiled Bread
16And he said to me: Son of man: Behold, I will break in pieces the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care: and they shall drink water by measure, and in distress. 17So that when bread and water fail, every man may fall against his brother, and they may pine away in their iniquities.
Cross References
Leviticus 26:26
After I shall have broken the staff of your bread: so that ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and give it out by weight: and you shall eat, and shall not be filled,

Leviticus 26:39
And if of them also some remain, they shall pine away in their iniquities, in the land of their enemies: and they shall be afflicted for the sins of their fathers, and their own.

Ezekiel 24:23
You shall have crowns on your heads, and shoes on your feet: you shall not lament nor weep, but you shall pine away for your iniquities, and every one shall sigh with his brother.

Ezekiel 33:10
Thou therefore, O son of man, say to the house of Israel: Thus you have spoken, saying: Our iniquities, and our sins are upon us, and we pine away in them: how then can we live?

Amos 4:8
And two and three cities went to one city to drink water, and were not filled: yet you returned not to me, saith the Lord.

Lexicon
So
לְמַ֥עַן (lə·ma·‘an)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 4616: Purpose -- intent

they will lack
יַחְסְר֖וּ (yaḥ·sə·rū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 2637: To lack, need, be lacking, decrease

food
לֶ֣חֶם (le·ḥem)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3899: Food, bread, grain

and water;
וָמָ֑יִם (wā·mā·yim)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 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 Hebrew 8074: To stun, devastate, stupefy

[over the sight of] one
אִ֣ישׁ (’îš)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 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 Hebrew 251: A brother, )

wasting away
וְנָמַ֖קּוּ (wə·nā·maq·qū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 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 Hebrew 5771: Iniquity, guilt, punishment for iniquity


Additional Translations
So they will lack food and water; they will be appalled over the sight of one another wasting away in their iniquity.That they may want bread and water, and be astonished one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.

that they may want bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.

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.

because bread and water shall fail them, and they shall be astonied one with another, and waste away in their iniquity.

that they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.

That they may want bread and water, and be astonished one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.

that they may want bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.

so that they lack bread and water, and have been astonished one with another, and been consumed in their iniquity.
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