Ezekiel 12:18

Ezekiel 12:18 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with carefulness;
• New International Version (NIV)“Son of man, tremble as you eat your food, and shudder in fear as you drink your water.
• English Standard Version (ESV)"Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink water with trembling and with anxiety.
• New King James Version (NKJV)“Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink your water with trembling and anxiety.

Context of Ezekiel 12:18

16But I will leave a few [survivors] who will escape the sword, the famine, and the virulent disease, that they may confess all their repulsive (idolatrous) acts among the nations where they go, and may know [without any doubt] that I am the Lord.” 17Moreover, the word of the Lord came to me, saying, “Son of man, eat your bread with anxiety, and drink your water with trembling and with fear. 19Then say to the people of the land, ‘Thus says the Lord God concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem in the land of Israel, “They will eat their bread with anxiety and drink their water with horror, because their land will be stripped and looted of its fullness because of the violence of all those who live in it. 20The cities that are inhabited will be in ruins and the land will be deserted; and you will know [without any doubt] that I am the Lord.” ’ ”

Ezekiel 12:18 word by word

בֶּן־אָדָ֕ם לַחְמְךָ֖ בְּרַ֣עַשׁ תֹּאכֵ֑ל וּמֵימֶ֕יךָ בְּרָגְזָ֥ה וּבִדְאָגָ֖ה תִּשְׁתֶּֽה׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Sonבֵּןbên · son: childH1121
• of manאָדָם'âdâm · manH120
• eatאָכַל'âkal · to eatH398
• thy breadלֶ֫חֶםlechem · food: breadH3899
• with quakingרַ֫עַשׁra‛ash · quakingH7494
• and drinkשָׁתָהshâthâh · to drinkH8354
• thy waterמַיmayim · waterH4325
• with tremblingרׇגְזָהrogzâh · quiveringH7269
• and with carefulnessדְּאָגָהde'âgâh · anxietyH1674

Cross-references for Ezekiel 12:18

• Ezekiel 4:16Moreover, He said to me, “Son of man, behold (listen carefully), I am going to break the staff of bread [that supports life] in Jerusalem; and they shall eat bread [rationed] by weight and [eat it] with anxiety and fear, and drink water by measure and [drink it] in horror [of the impending starvation],
• Ezekiel 23:33You shall be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, With the cup of horror and desolation, With the cup of your sister Samaria.
• Leviticus 26:26When I break your staff of bread [that is, cut off your supply of food], ten women will bake your bread in one oven, and they will ration your bread; and you will eat and not be satisfied.
• Deuteronomy 28:48you will therefore serve your enemies whom the Lord sends against you, in hunger and in thirst, in nakedness and in lack of all things; and He will put an iron yoke [of slavery] on your neck until He has destroyed you.
• Job 3:24For my groaning comes at the sight of my food, And my cries [of despair] are poured out like water.
• Psalms 60:2You have made the land quake, You have split it open; Heal its rifts, for it shakes and totters.
• Psalms 80:5You have fed them the bread of tears, And You have made them drink [bitter] tears in abundance.
• Psalms 102:4My heart has been struck like grass and withered, Indeed, [absorbed by my heartache] I forget to eat my food.

Commentaries on Ezekiel 12:18

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 18Eat thy bread with quaking - Assume the manner of a person who is every moment afraid of his life, who has nothing but a morsel of bread to eat, and a little water to drink. Thus signifying the siege, and the straits to which they should be reduced. See this explained, Ezekiel 12:19; (note).Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 18Here the sign is the exhibition of such terror as the danger of a siege creates.Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 17-20Verses 17-20 The prophet must eat and drink in care and fear, with trembling, that he might express the condition of those in Jerusalem during the siege. When ministers speak of the ruin coming upon sinners, they must speak as those that know the terrors of the Lord. Afflictions are happy ones, however grievous to flesh and blood, that improve us in the knowledge of God.Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 17-20Ezekiel trembled and shook while he ate and drank. This was a sign act, a symbolic action that showed God’s message. His shaking showed the fear and anxiety of the people living in Jerusalem and Judah. They would see that destruction was coming and that they could not escape it. Later, the exiles would hear that their homeland had been destroyed. Then they would understand something important. They were not rejected by God. Instead, they were the ones who…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1818. Symbolical representation of the famine and fear with which they should eat their scanty morsel, in their exile, and especially at the siege.Read the comment

Topics related to Ezekiel 12:18

• Instruction
• Pantomime
• Symbols and Similitudes

In the dictionaries

• Son of man
• Carefulness
• Ezekiel
• Zedekiah (2)

Commentaries on Ezekiel 12

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings