God’s Word Translation
Ezekiel 4:9-17
9“Then take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and winter wheat. Put them in a container, and use them to make bread for yourself. Eat it during the 390 days that you are lying on your side.
10The food that you eat should be weighed. Eat eight ounces of food every day at set times.
11Measure out two-thirds of a quart of water, and drink it at set times.
12Eat the bread as you would eat barley loaves. Bake the bread in front of people, using human excrement for fuel.”
13Then the Lord said, “In the same way, the people of Israel will eat unclean bread among the nations where I scatter them.”
14I answered, “Almighty Lord, I have never dishonored myself. From the time I was young until now, I have never eaten an animal that died by itself or was killed by other wild animals. No unclean meat has ever entered my mouth.”
15He said to me, “I will let you use cow manure in place of human excrement. Bake your bread over it.”
16He also said to me, “Son of man, I am going to cut off the bread supply in Jerusalem. People will anxiously eat rationed bread and fearfully drink rationed water.
17They will be shocked at the sight of each other because of the lack of food and water. They will waste away because of their sin.”
Commentaries on Ezekiel 4
- 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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