Ezekiel 4:11

11 And {an amount of water} you shall drink, a sixth of a hin; {at fixed times} you shall drink [it].

Ezekiel 4:11 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 4:11

Thou shall drink also water by measure
Not wine, but water; and this not as much as he would, but a certain measure; which shows great want of it, and expresses a very distressed condition see ( Lamentations 5:4 ) ; the sixth part of an hin;
a hin held twelve logs, or seventy two egg shells, or about three quarts of our measure; and the sixth part of one were two logs, or twelve egg shells, and about a pint of our measure; so that it was but a pint of water a day that the prophet was allowed, as a token of the great scarcity of it in the siege of Jerusalem: from time to time shalt thou drink:
as before.

Ezekiel 4:11 In-Context

9 "And you, take for yourself wheat and barley and beans and lentils and millet and spelt, and you must put them in one vessel, and you must make them for yourself into a food [during] the number of days that you [are] lying on your side; three hundred and ninety days you shall eat it.

10 And your food that you will eat [will be] according to weight; twenty shekels for each day {at fixed times} you shall eat it.

11 And {an amount of water} you shall drink, a sixth of a hin; {at fixed times} you shall drink [it].

12 And [as a] bread-cake of barley you shall eat it, and {with human excrement} you shall bake it before their eyes."

13 And Yahweh said, "Thus shall the {Israelites} eat their unclean food among the nations {where I will scatter them}."

Footnotes

• [a]. Literally "water by amount"
• [b]. Literally "from time to time"