Ezekiel 4:17 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁷ Lacking bread and water, they will look at one another in dismay and waste away under their punishment.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ that they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ 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)

¹⁷ that they may want bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ When their food and water dwindles away, everyone will be horrified, and they will waste away because of their guilt.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ So then, when bread and water fail, each one may fall against his brother. And they shall waste away in their iniquities."

Ezekiel 4:17 Cross References

Ezekiel 24:23

Your turbans shall be on your heads and your sandals on your feet; you shall not mourn or weep, but you shall pine away in your iniquities and groan to one another.

Leviticus 26:39

And those of you who survive shall languish in the land of your enemies because of their iniquities; they shall also languish because of the iniquities of their ancestors.

Ezekiel 33:10

Now you, mortal, say to the house of Israel: Thus you have said: “Our transgressions and our sins weigh upon us, and we waste away because of them; how then can we live?”

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.

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.

2 Chronicles 34:24

‘Thus says the Lord: I will indeed bring disaster upon this place and upon its inhabitants, all the curses that are written in the book that was read before the king of Judah.