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Ezekiel 12:19

Then tell the people of the land that this is what the Lord GOD says about those living in Jerusalem and in the land of Israel: ‘They will eat their bread with anxiety and drink their water in dread, for their land will be stripped of everything in it because of the violence of all who dwell in it.

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ASV

and say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the land of Israel: They shall eat their bread with fearfulness, and drink their water in dismay, that her land may be desolate, and despoiled of all that is therein, because of the violence of all them that dwell therein.

KJV

And say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord God of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel; They shall eat their bread with carefulness, and drink their water with astonishment, that her land may be desolate from all that is therein, because of the violence of all them that dwell therein.

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OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וְאָמַרְתָּ֣ve.'a.mar.Taand you will sayH559 →
אֶל־'el-toH413 →
עַ֣ם'am[the] people ofH5971 →
הָאָ֡רֶץha.'A.retzthe landH776 →
כֹּֽה־koh-thusH3541 →
אָמַר֩'a.Marhe saysH559 →
אֲדֹנָ֨י'a.do.Nai[the] LordH136 →
יְהוִ֜הYah.wehYahwehH3069 →
לְיוֹשְׁבֵ֤יle.yo.she.Veiof [the] inhabitants ofH3427 →
יְרוּשָׁלִַ֙ם֙ye.ru.sha.LimJerusalemH3389 →
אֶל־'el-concerningH413 →
אַדְמַ֣ת'ad.Mat[the] land ofH127 →
יִשְׂרָאֵ֔לYis.ra.'ElIsraelH3478 →
לַחְמָם֙lach.Mamfood theirH3899 →
בִּדְאָגָ֣הbid.'a.Gahin anxietyH1674 →
יֹאכֵ֔לוּyo.Khe.luthey will eatH398 →
וּמֵֽימֵיהֶ֖םu.mei.mei.Hemand water theirH4325 →
בְּשִׁמָּמ֣וֹןbe.shi.ma.Monin horrorH8078 →
יִשְׁתּ֑וּyish.Tuthey will drinkH8354 →
לְמַ֜עַןle.Ma.'anso thatH4616 →
תֵּשַׁ֤םte.Shamit may be desolateH3456 →
אַרְצָהּ֙'ar.Tzahland itsH776 →
מִמְּלֹאָ֔הּmi.me.lo.'Ahfrom fullness itsH4393 →
מֵחֲמַ֖סme.cha.Masfrom [the] violence ofH2555 →
כָּֽל־kal-allH3605 →
הַיֹּשְׁבִ֥יםhai.yo.she.Vimthe inhabitantsH3427 →
בָּֽהּ׃Bahin it

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Zechariah 7:14But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations that they had not known, and the land was left desolate behind them so that no one could come or go. Thus they turned the pleasant land into a desolation.”Micah 7:13Then the earth will become desolate because of its inhabitants, as the fruit of their deeds.Ezekiel 6:6–7Wherever you live, the cities will be laid waste and the high places will be demolished, so that your altars will be laid waste and desecrated, your idols smashed and obliterated, your incense altars cut down, and your works blotted out.Ezekiel 6:14I will stretch out My hand against them, and wherever they live I will make the land a desolate waste, from the wilderness to Diblah. Then they will know that I am the LORD.’”1 Corinthians 10:28But if someone tells you, “This food was offered to idols,” then do not eat it, for the sake of the one who told you and for the sake of conscience—Jeremiah 10:22Listen! The sound of a report is coming— a great commotion from the land to the north. The cities of Judah will be made a desolation, a haunt for jackals.Ezekiel 7:23Forge the chain, for the land is full of crimes of bloodshed, and the city is full of violence.Micah 3:10–12who build Zion with bloodshed and Jerusalem with iniquity.1 Kings 17:10–12So Elijah got up and went to Zarephath. When he arrived at the city gate, there was a widow gathering sticks. Elijah called to her and said, “Please bring me a little water in a cup, so that I may drink.”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.Jeremiah 9:10–11I will take up a weeping and wailing for the mountains, a dirge over the wilderness pasture, for they have been scorched so no one passes through, and the lowing of cattle is not heard. Both the birds of the air and the beasts have fled; they have gone away.Jeremiah 4:27For this is what the LORD says: “The whole land will be desolate, but I will not finish its destruction.Ezekiel 36:3therefore prophesy and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: Because they have made you desolate and have trampled you on every side, so that you became a possession of the rest of the nations and were taken up in slander by the lips of their talkers,Psalms 107:34and fruitful land into fields of salt, because of the wickedness of its dwellers.Jeremiah 33:10This is what the LORD says: In this place you say is a wasteland without man or beast, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem that are deserted—inhabited by neither man nor beast—there will be heard againJeremiah 32:28Therefore this is what the LORD says: Behold, I am about to deliver this city into the hands of the Chaldeans and of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, who will capture it.Genesis 6:11–13Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and full of violence.Isaiah 6:11Then I asked: “How long, O Lord?” And He replied: “Until the cities lie ruined and without inhabitant, until the houses are left unoccupied and the land is desolate and ravaged,

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The Prophet Ezekiel — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Prophet Ezekiel — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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