Berean Standard Bible
Ezekiel 12:18
18“Son of man, eat your bread with trembling, and drink your water with quivering and anxiety.
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 spare a few of them from sword and famine and plague, so that in the nations to which they go, they can recount all their abominations. Then they will know that I am the LORD.” 17Moreover, the word of the LORD came to me, saying, “Son of man, eat your bread with trembling, and drink your water with quivering and anxiety. 19Then tell the people of the land that this is what the Lord GOD says about those living in Jerusalem and in the land of Israel: ‘They will eat their bread with anxiety and drink their water in dread, for their land will be stripped of everything in it because of the violence of all who dwell in it. 20The inhabited cities will be laid waste, and the land will become desolate. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’”
Read all of Ezekiel 12Ezekiel 12:18 word by word
בֶּן־אָדָ֕ם לַחְמְךָ֖ בְּרַ֣עַשׁ תֹּאכֵ֑ל וּמֵימֶ֕יךָ בְּרָגְזָ֥ה וּבִדְאָגָ֖ה תִּשְׁתֶּֽה׃Read the interlinear
- Sonבֵּןbên · son: childH1121
- of manאָדָם'âdâm · manH120
- eatאָכַל'âkal · to eatH398
- your breadלֶ֫חֶםlechem · food: breadH3899
- with tremblingרַ֫עַשׁra‛ash · quakingH7494
- and drinkשָׁתָהshâthâh · to drinkH8354
- your waterמַיmayim · waterH4325
- with quiveringרׇגְזָהrogzâh · quiveringH7269
- and anxietyדְּאָגָהde'âgâh · anxietyH1674
Cross-references for Ezekiel 12:18
- Ezekiel 4:16Then 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.
- Ezekiel 23:33You will be filled with drunkenness and grief, with a cup of devastation and desolation, the cup of your sister Samaria.
- Leviticus 26:26When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and dole out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.
- Deuteronomy 28:48you will serve your enemies the LORD will send against you in famine, thirst, nakedness, and destitution. He will place an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.
- Job 3:24I sigh when food is put before me, and my groans pour out like water.
- Psalms 60:2You have shaken the land and torn it open. Heal its fractures, for it is quaking.
- Psalms 80:5You fed them with the bread of tears and made them drink the full measure of their tears.
- Psalms 102:4My heart is afflicted, and withered like grass; I even forget to eat my bread.
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
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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
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