Ezekiel 12:18
“Son of man, eat your bread with trembling, and drink your water with quivering and anxiety.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with carefulness;
In Context
17Moreover, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
Cross References
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 80:5You fed them with the bread of tears and made them drink the full measure of their tears.
Lamentations 5:9We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.
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.
Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 12:18-21
Prediction of the Famine. ( b. c. 593.) 17 Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 18 Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with carefulness; 19 And say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord God of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel; They shall eat their bread with carefulness, and drink their water with astonishment, that her land may be desolate from all that is therein, because of the violence of all them that dwell therein. 20… Read the whole commentary →