Ezekiel 12:18
“Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink your water with trembling and with fearfulness.
World English 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 LORD’s word came to me, saying,
Cross References
Leviticus 26:26When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight. You shall eat, and not be satisfied.
Deuteronomy 28:48therefore you will serve your enemies whom the LORD sends against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in lack of all things. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.
Job 3:24For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water.
Psalms 80:5You have fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure.
Lamentations 5:9We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.
Ezekiel 4:16Moreover he said to me, “Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem. They will eat bread by weight, and with fearfulness. They will drink water by measure, and in dismay;
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 →