Ezekiel 12:19
and you have said to the people of the land, Thus said Lord YHWH concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem, concerning the land of Israel: They eat their bread with fear, and drink their water with astonishment, because its land is desolate, because of its fullness, because of the violence of all who are dwelling in it.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
18“Son of man, eat your bread in haste, and drink your water with trembling and with fear;
Cross References
Genesis 6:11And the earth is corrupt before God, and the earth is filled [with] violence.
Psalms 24:1A PSALM OF DAVID. To YHWH [is] the earth and its fullness, || The world and the inhabitants in it.
Isaiah 6:11And I say, “Until when, O Lord?” And He says, “Surely until cities have been ruined without inhabitant, || And houses without man, || And the ground is ruined—a desolation,
Jeremiah 6:7As the digging of a well, is [for] its waters, || So she has dug [for] her wickedness, || Violence and spoil is heard in her, || Sickness and striking [are] continually before My face.
Jeremiah 10:22A voice of a report, behold, it has come, || Even a great shaking from the north country, || To make the cities of Judah a desolation, || A habitation of dragons.
Jeremiah 25:11And all this land has been for a desolation, for an astonishment, and these nations have served the king of Babylon seventy years.
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 →