Ezekiel 4:17

17 Lacking food and water, people will look at one another in terror, and they will waste away under their punishment.

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 “All right,” the LORD said. “You may bake your bread with cow dung instead of human dung.”

16 Then he told me, “Son of man, I will make food very scarce in Jerusalem. It will be weighed out with great care and eaten fearfully. The water will be rationed out drop by drop, and the people will drink it with dismay.

17 Lacking food and water, people will look at one another in terror, and they will waste away under their punishment.