Ezekiel 4:12

A barley-cake thou dost eat it, and it with dung — the filth of man — thou dost bake before their eyes.

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight.

In Context

11'And water by measure thou dost drink, a sixth part of the hin; from time to time thou dost drink [it].

13And Jehovah saith, 'Thus do the sons of Israel eat their defiled bread among the nations whither I drive them.'

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Cross References

Genesis 18:6And Abraham hasteth towards the tent, unto Sarah, and saith, 'Hasten three measures of flour-meal, knead, and make cakes;'

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 4:10-17

The Representation of a Famine. ( b. c. 595.) 9 Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof. 10 And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it. 11 Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time… Read the whole commentary →

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