Ezekiel 4:17
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New International Version (©2011)
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 (©2007)
Lacking food and water, people will look at one another in terror, and they will waste away under their punishment.

English Standard Version (©2001)
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 (©1995)
because bread and water will be scarce; and they will be appalled with one another and waste away in their iniquity.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
So they will lack bread and water; everyone will be devastated and waste away because of their iniquity."

International Standard Version (©2012)
Indeed, they'll need bread and water, but everyone will be panic-stricken as they waste away in their iniquity."

NET Bible (©2006)
because they will lack bread and water. Each one will be terrified, and they will rot for their iniquity.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
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."

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
That they may lack bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and waste away for their iniquity.

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

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

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.

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

English Revised Version
that they may want bread and water, and be astonied 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 want bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and pine away 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.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

4:9-17 The bread which was Ezekiel's support, was to be made of coarse grain and pulse mixed together, seldom used except in times of urgent scarcity, and of this he was only to take a small quantity. Thus was figured the extremity to which the Jews were to be reduced during the siege and captivity. Ezekiel does not plead, Lord, from my youth I have been brought up delicately, and never used to any thing like this; but that he had been brought up conscientiously, and never had eaten any thing forbidden by the law. It will be comfortable when we are brought to suffer hardships, if our hearts can witness that we have always been careful to keep even from the appearance of evil. See what woful work sin makes, and acknowledge the righteousness of God herein. Their plenty having been abused to luxury and excess, they were justly punished by famine. When men serve not God with cheerfulness in the abundance of all things, God will make them serve their enemies in the want of all things.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 17. - Consume away for their iniquity, etc. Another echo from the book which had entered so largely into the prophet's education (see Leviticus 26:39, where the Hebrew for "pine" is the same as that here rendered "consume"). To the wretchedness of physical privation there was to be added the consciousness of the sufferers that it was caused by their own evil deeds.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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) "eo quod", Munster, Vatablus; "propterea", Tigurine version.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

17. astonied one with another—mutually regard one another with astonishment: the stupefied look of despairing want.

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The Defiled Bread
…15Then he said to me, See, I have given you cow's dung for man's dung, and you shall prepare your bread therewith. 16Moreover he said to me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment: 17That they may want bread and water, and be astonished one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.

Leviticus 26:26 When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will be able to bake your bread in one oven, and they will dole out the bread by weight. You will eat, but you will not be satisfied.
Leviticus 26:39 Those of you who are left will waste away in the lands of their enemies because of their sins; also because of their ancestors' sins they will waste away.
Ezekiel 24:23 You will keep your turbans on your heads and your sandals on your feet. You will not mourn or weep but will waste away because of your sins and groan among yourselves.
Ezekiel 33:10 "Son of man, say to the Israelites, 'This is what you are saying: "Our offenses and sins weigh us down, and we are wasting away because of them. How then can we live?"'
Amos 4:8 People staggered from town to town for water but did not get enough to drink, yet you have not returned to me," declares the LORD.