Ezekiel 12:18
Son of man, eat thy bread with sorrow, and drink thy water with torment and affliction.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with carefulness;
In Context
17And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Cross References
Leviticus 26:26When I afflict you with famine of bread, then ten women shall bake your loaves in one oven, and they shall render your loaves by weight; and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.
Deuteronomy 28:48And thou shalt serve thine enemies, which the Lord will send forth against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in the want of all things; and thou shalt wear upon thy neck a yoke of iron until he shall have destroyed thee.
Job 3:24For my groaning comes before my food, 1 And I weep being beset with terror. 1
Psalms 80:5For this is an ordinance for Israel, 1 And a statute of the God of Jacob. 1
Lamentations 5:9We shall bring in our bread with danger of our lives, 1 Because of the sword of the wilderness. 1
Ezekiel 4:16And he said to me, Son of man, behold, I break the support of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight and in want; and shall drink water by measure, and in a state of ruin:
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 →