Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version 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 Lacking food and water, people will look at one another in terror, and they will waste away under their punishment. 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. Berean Standard Bible So they will lack food and water; they will be appalled at the sight of one another wasting away in their iniquity. King James Bible That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away 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 American Standard Bible because bread and water will be scarce; and they will tremble with one another and waste away in their guilt. NASB 1995 because bread and water will be scarce; and they will be appalled with one another and waste away in their iniquity. NASB 1977 because bread and water will be scarce; and they will be appalled with one another and waste away in their iniquity. 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. Christian Standard Bible for lack of bread and water. Everyone will be devastated and waste away because of their iniquity. Holman Christian Standard Bible So they will lack bread and water; everyone will be devastated and waste away because of their iniquity.” American Standard Version that they may want bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity. Aramaic Bible in Plain English And they shall be needy for bread and for water, and a man and his brothers shall come to an end, and they shall be consumed in their evil Brenton Septuagint Translation 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. Contemporary English Version Everyone will be shocked at what is happening, and, because of their sins, they will die a slow death." 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. 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." International Standard Version Indeed, they'll need bread and water, but everyone will be panic-stricken as they waste away in their iniquity." JPS Tanakh 1917 that they may want bread and water, and be appalled one with another, and pine away in their iniquity. Literal Standard Version so that they lack bread and water, and have been astonished with one another, and been consumed in their iniquity.” New American Bible Because they lack bread and water they shall be devastated; each and every one will waste away because of their guilt. NET Bible because they will lack bread and water. Each one will be terrified, and they will rot for their iniquity. New Revised Standard Version Lacking bread and water, they will look at one another in dismay, and waste away under their punishment. New Heart English Bible that they may want bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and pine away in 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. Additional Translations ... Context The Defiled Bread…16Then He told me, “Son of man, I am going to cut off the supply of food in Jerusalem. They will anxiously eat bread rationed by weight, and in despair they will drink water by measure. 17So they will lack food and water; they will be appalled at the sight of one another wasting away in their iniquity. Cross References Leviticus 26:26 When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and dole out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied. Leviticus 26:39 Those of you who survive in the lands of your enemies will waste away in their iniquity and will decay in the sins of their fathers. Ezekiel 24:23 Your turbans will remain on your heads and your sandals on your feet. You will not mourn or weep, but you will waste away because of your sins, and you will groan among yourselves. Ezekiel 33:10 Now as for you, son of man, tell the house of Israel that this is what they have said: 'Our transgressions and our sins are heavy upon us, and we are wasting away because of them! How can we live?' Amos 4:8 People staggered from city to city for water to drink, but they were not satisfied; yet you did not return to Me," declares the LORD. Treasury of Scripture That they may want bread and water, and be astonished one with another, and consume away for their iniquity. and consume Ezekiel 24:23 And your tires shall be upon your heads, and your shoes upon your feet: ye shall not mourn nor weep; but ye shall pine away for your iniquities, and mourn one toward another. Leviticus 26:39 And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.
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.
Hebrew Soלְמַ֥עַן (lə·ma·‘an) Conjunction Strong's 4616: Purpose -- intent they will lack יַחְסְר֖וּ (yaḥ·sə·rū) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural Strong's 2637: To lack, need, be lacking, decrease food לֶ֣חֶם (le·ḥem) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 3899: Food, bread, grain and water; וָמָ֑יִם (wā·mā·yim) Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural Strong's 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 8074: To stun, devastate, stupefy [over the sight of] one אִ֣ישׁ (’îš) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 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 251: A brother, ) wasting away וְנָמַ֖קּוּ (wə·nā·maq·qū) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural Strong's 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 5771: Iniquity, guilt, punishment for iniquity Jump to Previous Appalled Astonied Astonished Bread Consume Consumed Dismay Dismayed Fail Food Iniquity Lack Need Pine Punishment Scarce Sight Want Waste Wasting Water WonderingJump to Next Appalled Astonied Astonished Bread Consume Consumed Dismay Dismayed Fail Food Iniquity Lack Need Pine Punishment Scarce Sight Want Waste Wasting Water WonderingLinks Ezekiel 4:17 NIVEzekiel 4:17 NLT Ezekiel 4:17 ESV Ezekiel 4:17 NASB Ezekiel 4:17 KJV Ezekiel 4:17 BibleApps.com Ezekiel 4:17 Biblia Paralela Ezekiel 4:17 Chinese Bible Ezekiel 4:17 French Bible Ezekiel 4:17 Catholic Bible OT Prophets: Ezekiel 4:17 That they may want bread and water (Ezek. Eze Ezk) |
   
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