◄ Ezekiel 4:17 ►
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Good News Translation
They will run out of bread and water; they will be in despair, and they will waste away because of their sins."

New Revised Standard Version
Lacking bread and water, they will look at one another in dismay, and waste away under their punishment.

Contemporary English Version
Everyone will be shocked at what is happening, and, because of their sins, they will die a slow death."

New American Bible
Because they lack bread and water they shall be devastated; each and every one will waste away because of their guilt.

Douay-Rheims Bible
So that when bread and water fail, every man may fall against his brother, and they may pine away in their iniquities.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

So that when bread and water fail, every man may fall against his brother, and they may pine away in their iniquities.

and consume

Ezekiel 24:23 You shall have crowns on your heads, and shoes on your feet: you shall not lament nor weep, but you shall pine away for your iniquities, and every one shall sigh with his brother.

Leviticus 26:39 And if of them also some remain, they shall pine away in their iniquities, in the land of their enemies: and they shall be afflicted for the sins of their fathers, and their own.

Context
The Defiled Bread
…16And 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. 17So that when bread and water fail, every man may fall against his brother, and they may pine away in their iniquities.
Cross References
Leviticus 26:26
After I shall have broken the staff of your bread: so that ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and give it out by weight: and you shall eat, and shall not be filled,

Leviticus 26:39
And if of them also some remain, they shall pine away in their iniquities, in the land of their enemies: and they shall be afflicted for the sins of their fathers, and their own.

Ezekiel 24:23
You shall have crowns on your heads, and shoes on your feet: you shall not lament nor weep, but you shall pine away for your iniquities, and every one shall sigh with his brother.

Ezekiel 33:10
Thou therefore, O son of man, say to the house of Israel: Thus you have spoken, saying: Our iniquities, and our sins are upon us, and we pine away in them: how then can we live?

Amos 4:8
And two and three cities went to one city to drink water, and were not filled: yet you returned not to me, saith the Lord.

Ezekiel 4:16
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