Bible Compass
Log inGet started
Back to the chapter

Ezekiel 4:17

Judgment

15 “Look,” He replied, “I will let you use cow dung instead of human excrement, and you may bake your bread over that.”

16 Then He told me, “Son of man, I am going to cut off the supply of food in Jerusalem. They will anxiously eat bread rationed by weight, and in despair they will drink water by measure.

So they will lack food and water; they will be appalled at the sight of one another wasting away in their iniquity.
Read the whole chapter

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB
So they will lack food and water; they will be appalled at the sight of one another wasting away in their iniquity.
KJV
That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.
WEB
that they may lack bread and water, be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.
ASV
that they may want bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.
DARBY
because bread and water shall fail them, and they shall be astonied one with another, and waste away in their iniquity.
BLB
so that they lack bread and water, and they be dismayed, a man and his brother, and waste away in their iniquity!
ÅB
så de skal lide mangel på brød og vann og forferdes, den ene med den andre, og visne bort i sin misgjerning.
OTB
fordi mat og vann vil være knapt. De vil se på hverandre i redsel og svinne bort i sin skyld.
B1930
så de skal lide mangel på brød og vann og forferdes, den ene med den andre, og visne bort i sin misgjerning.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Leviticus 26:39

    Those of you who survive in the lands of your enemies will waste away in their iniquity and will decay in the sins of their fathers.

    Read in context

  • Ezekiel 24:23

    Your turbans will remain on your heads and your sandals on your feet. You will not mourn or weep, but you will waste away because of your sins, and you will groan among yourselves.

    Read in context

  • Ezekiel 33:10

    Now as for you, son of man, tell the house of Israel that this is what they have said: ‘Our transgressions and our sins are heavy upon us, and we are wasting away because of them! How can we live?’

    Read in context