That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.
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4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsbecause bread and water shall fail them, and they shall be astonied one with another, and waste away in their iniquity.
that they may want bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.
So they will lack food and water; they will be appalled at the sight of one another wasting away in their iniquity.
so that they lack bread and water, and have been astonished one with another, and been consumed in their iniquity.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentEzekiel — The exile prophet — priest taken to Babylon in 597 BC, writing to a community still convinced the exile is temporary. Wheels within wheels, the glory departing, dry bones coming to life, and the city whose new name is YHWH Shammah — ‘the LORD is there.’
- Author
- Ezekiel, son of Buzi the priest (1:3)
- Date
- Dated oracles 593 BC (1:1, fifth year of Jehoiachin's exile) to 571 BC (29:17)