Ezekiel 4:17
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“So they will lack food and water; they will be appalled at the sight of one another wasting away in their iniquity.”
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“So they will lack food and water; they will be appalled at the sight of one another wasting away in their iniquity.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.”
King James Version · Public Domain“that they may want bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“so that they lack bread and water, and have been astonished one with another, and been consumed in their iniquity.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Ezekiel 4:17 — 5 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 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.
- 2 Kings 6:25So there was a great famine in Samaria. Indeed, they besieged the city so long that a donkey’s head sold for eighty shekels of silver, and a quarter cab of dove’s dung sold for five shekels of silver.
- 2 Chronicles 34:24that this is what the LORD says: I am about to bring calamity on this place and on its people, according to all the curses written in the book that has been read in the presence of the king of Judah,
- 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.
- 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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