And there was a great scarcity of food in Shomeron. And see, they besieged it until a donkey’s head went at eighty pieces of silver, and one-fourth of a kab of dove droppings for five pieces of silver.
Ezekiel 4:17 - The Scriptures 2009 so that they lack bread and water, and shall be appalled with one another, and be consumed in their crookedness. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 that they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition In order that they may lack bread and water and look at one another in dismay and waste away [in their punishment] for their iniquity. American Standard Version (1901) that they may want bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity. Common English Bible When their food and water dwindles away, everyone will be horrified, and they will waste away because of their guilt. Catholic Public Domain Version So then, when bread and water fail, each one may fall against his brother. And they shall waste away in their iniquities." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version So that when bread and water fail, every man may fall against his brother, and they may pine away in their iniquities. |
And there was a great scarcity of food in Shomeron. And see, they besieged it until a donkey’s head went at eighty pieces of silver, and one-fourth of a kab of dove droppings for five pieces of silver.
“Thus said יהוה, ‘See, I am bringing evil on this place and on its inhabitants, all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the sovereign of Yehuḏah,
and let your turbans remain on your heads and your sandals on your feet. Do not mourn, nor weep, but you shall pine away in your crookednesses and groan with one another.
“And you, O son of man, say to the house of Yisra’ĕl, ‘This is what you have said, “If our transgressions and our sins lie upon us, and we pine away in them, how then shall we live?” ’
‘When I have cut off your supply of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall bring back to you your bread by weight, and you shall eat and not be satisfied.
and those of you who are left rot away in their crookedness in your enemies’ lands, and also in their fathers’ crookednesses rot away with them.
“Then two or three cities would wander to another city to drink water, but they were not satisfied. But you did not turn back to Me,” declares יהוה.