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

15“All right,” the Lord said. “You may bake your bread with cow dung instead of human dung.” 16Then he told me, “Son of man, I will make food very scarce in Jerusalem. It will be weighed out with great care and eaten fearfully. The water will be rationed out drop by drop, and the people will drink it with dismay. Lacking food and water, people will look at one another in terror, and they will waste away under their punishment.

Ezekiel 4:17 word by word

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

Words taken from the KJV.

• That they may wantחָסֵרchâsêr · to lackH2637
• breadלֶ֫חֶםlechem · food: breadH3899
• and waterמַיmayim · waterH4325
• and be astoniedשָׁמֵםshâmêm · be desolate: appalledH8074
• oneאִישׁ'îysh · man: anyoneH376
• with anotherאָח'âch · brother: compatriotH251
• and consume awayמָקַקmâqaq · to rotH4743
• for their iniquityעָוֺן‛âvôn ‛âvôn · iniquity: punishmentH5771

Cross-references for Ezekiel 4:17

• Ezekiel 24:23Your heads will remain covered, and your sandals will not be taken off. You will not mourn or weep, but you will waste away because of your sins. You will groan among yourselves for all the evil you have done.
• Leviticus 26:39Those of you who survive will waste away in your enemies’ lands because of their sins and the sins of their ancestors.

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