Ezekiel 4:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁶ Then he said to me, “Mortal, I am going to cut off the supply of bread in Jerusalem; they shall eat bread by weight and with fearfulness, and they shall drink water by measure and in dismay.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ Moreover he said unto 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 with astonishment:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ Moreover, He said to me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread [by which life is supported] in Jerusalem; and they shall eat bread rationed by weight and with fearfulness, and they shall drink water rationed by measure and with dismay (silent, speechless grief caused by the impending starvation), [Lev. 26:26; Ps. 105:16; Isa. 3:1.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with fearfulness; and they shall drink water by measure, and in dismay:

Common English Bible

¹⁶ Then he said to me: Human one, I’m destroying the food supply in Jerusalem. They will anxiously ration and eat their food, and in dismay they will dole out and drink their water.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ And he said to me: "Son of man, behold: I will crush the staff of bread in Jerusalem. And they will eat bread by weight and with anxiety. And they will drink water by measure and with anguish.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ And he said to me: Son of man: Behold, I will break in pieces 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 distress.

Ezekiel 4:16 Krydshenvisninger

2 Kings 25:3

On the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine became so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.

2 Kings 6:25

As the siege continued, famine in Samaria became so great that a donkey’s head was sold for eighty shekels of silver and one-fourth of a kab of dove’s dung for five shekels of silver.

Psalm 105:16

When he summoned famine against the land and cut off every supply of bread,

Psalm 60:3

You have made your people suffer hard things; you have given us wine to drink that made us reel.

Isaiah 3:1

For now the Sovereign, the Lord of hosts, is taking away from Jerusalem and from Judah support and staff— all support of bread and all support of water—

Jeremiah 52:6

On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine became so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.

Lamentations 1:11

All her people groan as they search for bread; they trade their treasures for food to revive their lives. Look, O Lord, and see how worthless I have become.

Lamentations 5:4

We must pay for the water we drink; the wood we get must be bought.

Lamentations 5:9

We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.

Ezekiel 14:13

Mortal, when a land sins against me by acting faithlessly and I stretch out my hand against it and cut off its supply of bread and send famine upon it and cut off from it humans and animals,

Ezekiel 4:15

Then he said to me, “See, I will let you have cow’s dung instead of human dung, on which you may prepare your bread.”

Ezekiel 5:16

when I loose against you my deadly arrows of famine, arrows for destruction, which I will let loose to destroy you, and when I bring more and more famine upon you and cut off your supply of bread.

Leviticus 26:26

When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in a single oven, and they shall dole out your bread by weight, and though you eat, you shall not be satisfied.

Amos 4:8

so two or three towns wandered to one town to drink water and were not satisfied; yet you did not return to me, says the Lord.

Revelation 6:5

When he broke the third seal, I heard the third living creature call out, “Come!” I looked, and there was a black horse! Its rider held a pair of scales in his hand,