Ezekiel 12:18
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)““Son of man, eat your bread with trembling, and drink your water with quivering and anxiety.”
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““Son of man, eat your bread with trembling, and drink your water with quivering and anxiety.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with carefulness;”
King James Version · Public Domain“Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with fearfulness;”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“`Son of man, thy bread in haste thou dost eat, and thy water with trembling and with fear thou dost drink;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Ezekiel 12:18 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Leviticus 26:26When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and dole out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.
- Leviticus 26:36As for those of you who survive, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies, so that even the sound of a windblown leaf will put them to flight. And they will flee as one flees the sword, and fall when no one pursues them.
- Deuteronomy 28:48you will serve your enemies the LORD will send against you in famine, thirst, nakedness, and destitution. He will place an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.
- Deuteronomy 28:65Among those nations you will find no repose, not even a resting place for the sole of your foot. There the LORD will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and a despairing soul.
- Job 3:24I sigh when food is put before me, and my groans pour out like water.
- Psalms 60:2You have shaken the land and torn it open. Heal its fractures, for it is quaking.
- Psalms 80:5You fed them with the bread of tears and made them drink the full measure of their tears.
- Psalms 102:4My heart is afflicted, and withered like grass; I even forget to eat my bread.
- Lamentations 5:9We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.
- Ezekiel 4:10You are to weigh out twenty shekels of food to eat each day, and you are to eat it at set times.
- Ezekiel 4:16Then He told me, “Son of man, I am going to cut off the supply of food in Jerusalem. They will anxiously eat bread rationed by weight, and in despair they will drink water by measure.
- Ezekiel 23:33You will be filled with drunkenness and grief, with a cup of devastation and desolation, the cup of your sister Samaria.
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