Ezekiel 4:17

17 So they will lack bread and water; everyone will be devastated and waste away because of their iniquity.

Ezekiel 4:17 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 4:17

That they may want bread and water
Or, "because they shall want" ^F12 &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.

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FOOTNOTES:

F12 (Neml) "eo quod", Munster, Vatablus; "propterea", Tigurine version.

Ezekiel 4:17 In-Context

15 He replied to me, "Look, I will let you [use] cow dung instead of human excrement, and you can make your bread over that."

16 Then He said to me, "Son of man, I am going to cut off the supply of bread in Jerusalem. They will anxiously eat bread [rationed] by weight and in dread drink water by measure.

17 So they will lack bread and water; everyone will be devastated and waste away because of their iniquity.