Ezekiel 4:17 BSB — MannaFest

Ezekiel 4:17

So they will lack food and water; they will be appalled at the sight of one another wasting away in their iniquity.

BSB

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ASV

that they may want bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.

KJV

That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.

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Commentary

2 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Ezekiel (420)

(Verse 16, 17.) And he said to me: Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem, and they shall eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and they shall drink water by measure and with dismay; so that when bread and water are lacking, each one shall stumble to his brother, and they shall waste away in their iniquities. The Hebrew word Mate () is interpreted as staff in the first edition of Aquila, and as firmament in the second edition and by Symmachus and Theodotion.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

And it is sin that brings all this misery upon them: They shall consume away in their iniquity (so it may be read); they shall continue hardened and impenitent, and shall die in their sins, which is more miserable than to die on a dunghill. Now, (1.) Let us see here what woeful work sin makes with a people, and acknowledge the righteousness of God herein.

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Original language & word study

9 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
לְמַ֥עַן	le.Ma.'an	so that	H4616 →
יַחְסְר֖וּ	yach.se.Ru	they may lack	H2637 →
לֶ֣חֶם	Le.chem	bread	H3899 →
וָמָ֑יִם	va.Ma.yim	and water	H4325 →
וְנָשַׁ֙מּוּ֙	ve.na.Sha.mu	and they will be appalled	H8074 →
אִ֣ישׁ	'ish	everyone	H376 →
וְאָחִ֔יו	ve.'a.Chiv	and brother his	H251 →
וְנָמַ֖קּוּ	ve.na.Ma.ku	and they will waste away	H4743 →
בַּעֲוֹנָֽם׃ פ	ba.'a.vo.Nam	in iniquity their	H5771 →

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

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Through
Leviticus 26:39
Those 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.
leads to
- Ezekiel 33:10
  Now 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…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Ezekiel 24:23
  Your 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.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Matthew 23:35–36
  And so upon you will come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and…
- Ezekiel 6:9
  Then in the nations to which they have been carried captive, your survivors will remember Me—how I have been grieved by their adulterous hearts that turned away from Me, and by their eyes that…
- Exodus 20:5
  You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth…
Through
Ezekiel 33:10
Now 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…
leads to
- Leviticus 26:39
  Those 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.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Ezekiel 37:11
  Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Look, they are saying, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope has perished; we are cut off.’
- Isaiah 49:14
  But Zion said, “The LORD has forsaken me; the Lord has forgotten me!”

About Ezekiel

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

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Ezekiel

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

About Ezekiel