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.
Ezekiel 4:17 - New Revised Standard Version Lacking bread and water, they will look at one another in dismay, and waste away under their punishment. 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. |
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.
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.
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.
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?”
When I break your staff 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.
And those of you who survive shall languish in the land of your enemies because of their iniquities; also they shall languish because of the iniquities of their ancestors.
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.