Ezekiel 12:19

and thou hast said unto the people of the land, Thus said the Lord Jehovah concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem, concerning the land of Israel: Their bread with fear they do eat, and their water with astonishment drink, because its land is desolate, because of its fulness, because of the violence of all who are dwelling in it.

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

18'Son of man, thy bread in haste thou dost eat, and thy water with trembling and with fear thou dost drink;

20And the cities that are inhabited are laid waste, and the land is a desolation, and ye have known that I [am] Jehovah.'

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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 Jehovah [is] the earth and its fulness, The world and the inhabitants in it.

Isaiah 6:11And I say, 'Till when, O Lord?' And He saith, 'Surely till cities have been wasted without inhabitant, And houses without man, And the ground be wasted — a desolation,

Jeremiah 6:7As the digging of a well, is [for] its waters, So she hath digged [for] her wickedness, Violence and spoil is heard in her, Before My face continually [are] sickness and smiting.

Jeremiah 10:22A voice of a report, lo, it hath 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 hath been for a waste, 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 →

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