Ezekiel 4:11

11 Also measure out a sixth of a hin^[a] of water and drink it at set times.

Ezekiel 4:11 in Other Translations

11 Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.

11 And water you shall drink by measure, the sixth part of a hin; from day to day you shall drink.

11 Then measure out a jar of water for each day, and drink it at set times.

11 Also measure out your daily ration of about a pint of water and drink it on schedule.

11 You are also to drink water by measure, one-sixth of a gallon, [which] you will drink from time to time.

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 “Take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and spelt; put them in a storage jar and use them to make bread for yourself. You are to eat it during the 390 days you lie on your side.

10 Weigh out twenty shekels of food to eat each day and eat it at set times.

11 Also measure out a sixth of a hin of water and drink it at set times.

12 Eat the food as you would a loaf of barley bread; bake it in the sight of the people, using human excrement for fuel.”

13 The LORD said, “In this way the people of Israel will eat defiled food among the nations where I will drive them.”

Cross References

• 1. ver 16

Footnotes

• [a]. That is, about 2/3 quart or about 0.6 liter