Ezekiel 4:17

Ezekiel 4:17 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.
• New International Version (NIV)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.
• English Standard Version (ESV)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.
• New King James Version (NKJV)that they may lack bread and water, and be dismayed with one another, and waste away because of their iniquity.

Context of Ezekiel 4:17

15Then He said to me, “See, I will give you cow’s dung in place of human dung, so that you may prepare your bread over it.” 16Moreover, He said to me, “Son of man, behold, I am going to break the staff of bread in Jerusalem, and they will eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and drink water by measure and in horror, because bread and water will be scarce; and they will tremble with one another and waste away in their guilt.

Ezekiel 4:17 word by word

לְמַ֥עַן יַחְסְר֖וּ לֶ֣חֶם וָמָ֑יִם וְנָשַׁ֙מּוּ֙ אִ֣ישׁ וְאָחִ֔יו וְנָמַ֖קּוּ בַּעֲוֹנָֽם׃ פRead the interlinear

• becauseמַ֫עַןma‛an · becauseH4616
• breadלֶ֫חֶםlechem · food: breadH3899
• and waterמַיmayim · waterH4325
• will beחָסֵרchâsêr · to lackH2637
• and they will trembleשָׁמֵםshâmêm · be desolate: appalledH8074
• with oneאִישׁ'îysh · man: anyoneH376
• anotherאָח'âch · brother: compatriotH251
• wasteמָקַקmâqaq · to rotH4743
• in their guiltעָוֺן‛âvôn ‛âvôn · iniquity: punishmentH5771

Cross-references for Ezekiel 4:17

• Ezekiel 24:23Your turbans will be on your heads, and your sandals on your feet. You will not mourn and you will not weep; but you will rot away in your guilty deeds, and you will groan to one another.
• Leviticus 26:39So those of you who may be left will rot away because of their wrongdoing in the lands of your enemies; and also because of the wrongdoing of their forefathers they will rot away with them.

Commentaries on Ezekiel 4:17

• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 9-17Verses 9-17 The bread which was Ezekiel's support, was to be made of coarse grain and pulse mixed together, seldom used except in times of urgent scarcity, and of this he was only to take a small quantity. Thus was figured the extremity to which the Jews were to be reduced during the siege and captivity. Ezekiel does not plead, Lord, from my youth I have been brought up delicately, and never used to any thing like this; but that he had been brought up…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 9-17The near-starvation diet of eight ounces of food and a jar of water each day represents siege rations. This reflects a desperate situation where there was not enough of any one type of grain to make a whole loaf.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1717. astonied one with another--mutually regard one another with astonishment: the stupefied look of despairing want.Read the comment

Topics related to Ezekiel 4:17

• Famine
• Instruction
• Symbols and Similitudes

In the dictionaries

• Care
• Cherub
• Living creatures
• Agabus
• Consume
• Hill; Mount; Mountain
• Hosea
• Pining Sickness
• Zedekiah (2)

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