Ezekiel 12:18
Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with carefulness;
Noyes 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
17And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying:
Cross References
Job 3:24For my sighing cometh before I eat, And my groans are poured out like water.
Psalms 80:5For thou causest them to eat the bread of tears, And givest them tears to drink, in full measure.
Lamentations 5:9With the peril of our lives we get our bread, Because of the sword of the wilderness.
Ezekiel 4:16And he said to me: Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem, and they shall eat bread by weight and with care, and they shall drink water by measure and in amazement;
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 →