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Read›Ezekiel›Chapter 4

The Defiled Bread

Ezekiel 4:17

In 11 translations

BSB
So they will lack food and water; they will be appalled at the sight of one another wasting away in their iniquity.
KJV
That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.
WEB
that they may lack bread and water, be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.
ASV
that they may want bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.
LSV
so that they lack bread and water, and have been astonished with one another, and been consumed in their iniquity.”
YLT
so that they lack bread and water, and have been astonished one with another, and been consumed in their iniquity.
DBY
because bread and water shall fail them, and they shall be astonied one with another, and waste away in their iniquity.
DRC
So that when bread and water fail, every man may fall against his brother, and they may pine away in their iniquities.
GNV
Because that bread and water shall faile, they shalbe astonied one with another, and shall consume away for their iniquitie.
JPS
that they may want bread and water, and be appalled one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.
LXXE
that they may want bread and water; and a man and his brother shall be brought to ruin, and they shall pine away in their iniquities.

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Original-language editions

WLC
לְמַ֥עַן יַחְסְר֖וּ לֶ֣חֶם וָמָ֑יִם וְנָשַׁ֨מּוּ֙ אִ֣ישׁ וְאָחִ֔יו וְנָמַ֖קּוּ בַּעֲוֺנָֽם׃
LXX-Br
Ὅπως ἐνδεεῖς γένωνται ἄρτου καὶ ὕδατος· καὶ ἀφανισθήσεται ἄνθρωπος καὶ ἀδελφὸς αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐντακήσονται ἐν ταῖς ἀδικίαις αὐτῶν.

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  • Ezekiel 24:23Your turbans will remain on your heads and your sandals on your feet. You will not mourn or weep, but you will waste away because of your sins, and you will groan among yourselves.
  • Leviticus 26:39Those of you who survive in the lands of your enemies will waste away in their iniquity and will decay in the sins of their fathers.
  • Ezekiel 33:10Now as for you, son of man, tell the house of Israel that this is what they have said: ‘Our transgressions and our sins are heavy upon us, and we are wasting away because of them! How can we live?’

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