And there was a great famine in Samaria, as they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung for five shekels of silver.
Ezekiel 4:17 - Revised Standard Version I will do this that they may lack bread and water, and 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. |
And there was a great famine in Samaria, as they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung for five shekels of silver.
Thus says the Lord, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place and upon its inhabitants, all the curses that are written in the book which was read before the king of Judah.
Your turbans shall be on your heads and your shoes on your feet; you shall not mourn or weep, but you shall pine away in your iniquities and groan to one another.
“And you, son of man, say to the house of Israel, Thus have you said: ‘Our transgressions and our sins are 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 one oven, and shall deliver your bread again by weight; and you shall eat, and not be satisfied.
And those of you that are left shall pine away in your enemies' lands because of their iniquity; and also because of the iniquities of their fathers they shall pine away like them.
so two or three cities wandered to one city to drink water, and were not satisfied; yet you did not return to me,” says the Lord.