And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.
Ezekiel 4:17 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition that they may want bread and water, and be astonished one with another, and consume away for their iniquity. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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 famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.
Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Judah:
And your tires shall be upon your heads, and your shoes upon your feet: ye shall not mourn nor weep; but ye shall pine away for your iniquities, and mourn one toward another.
Therefore, O thou son of man, speak unto the house of Israel; Thus ye speak, saying, If our transgressions and our sins be upon us, and we pine away in them, how should we then live?
And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.
And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.
So two or three cities wandered unto one city, to drink water; but they were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.