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Ezekiel 4:17

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17 for food and water will be scarce. They will be appalled at the sight of each other and will waste away because of[a] their sin.
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Ezekiel 4:17 in Other Translations

KJV
17 That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.
ESV
17 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.
NLT
17 Lacking food and water, people will look at one another in terror, and they will waste away under their punishment.
MSG
17 Famine conditions. People will look at one another, see nothing but skin and bones, and shake their heads. This is what sin does."
CSB
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.

FOOTNOTES:

F12 (Neml) "eo quod", Munster, Vatablus; "propterea", Tigurine version.
Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Ezekiel 4:17 In-Context

15 “Very well,” he said, “I will let you bake your bread over cow dung instead of human excrement.”
16 He then said to me: “Son of man, I am about to cut off the food supply in Jerusalem. The people will eat rationed food in anxiety and drink rationed water in despair,
17 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.

Cross References 2

  • 1. Lamentations 5:4; Ezekiel 5:16; Ezekiel 12:18-19; Amos 4:8
  • 2. S Leviticus 26:39; Ezekiel 24:23; Ezekiel 33:10

Footnotes 1

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