Ezekiel 12:18

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Son of man, take your food with shaking fear, and your water with trouble and care;

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  • Lev 26:26 : 26 When I take away your bread of life, ten women will be cooking bread in one oven, and your bread will be measured out by weight; you will have food but never enough.
  • Lev 26:36 : 36 And as for the rest of you, I will make their hearts feeble in the land of their haters, and the sound of a leaf moved by the wind will send them in flight, and they will go in flight as from the sword, falling down when no one comes after them;
  • Deut 28:48 : 48 For this cause you will become servants to those whom the Lord your God will send against you, without food and drink and clothing, and in need of all things: and he will put a yoke of iron on your neck till he has put an end to you.
  • Deut 28:65 : 65 And even among these nations there will be no peace for you, and no rest for your feet: but the Lord will give you there a shaking heart and wasting eyes and weariness of soul:
  • Job 3:24 : 24 In place of my food I have grief, and cries of sorrow come from me like water.
  • Ps 60:2-3 : 2 By the power of your hand the earth is shaking and broken; make it strong again, for it is moved. 3 You have made the people see hard times; you have given us the wine of shaking for our drink.
  • Ps 80:5 : 5 You have given them the bread of weeping for food; for their drink you have given them sorrow in great measure.
  • Ps 102:4-9 : 4 My heart is broken; it has become dry and dead like grass, so that I give no thought to food. 5 Because of the voice of my sorrow, my flesh is wasted to the bone. 6 I am like a bird living by itself in the waste places; like the night-bird in a waste of sand. 7 I keep watch like a bird by itself on the house-top. 8 My haters say evil of me all day; those who are violent against me make use of my name as a curse. 9 I have had dust for bread and my drink has been mixed with weeping:
  • Lam 5:9 : 9 We put our lives in danger to get our bread, because of the sword of the waste land.
  • Ezek 4:16-17 : 16 And he said to me, Son of man, see, I will take away from Jerusalem her necessary bread: they will take their bread by weight and with care, measuring out their drinking-water with fear and wonder: 17 So that they may be in need of bread and water and be wondering at one another, wasting away in their sin.
  • Ezek 23:33 : 33 You will be broken and full of sorrow, with the cup of wonder and destruction, with the cup of your sister Samaria.

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    19 And say to the people of the land, This is what the Lord has said about the people of Jerusalem and the land of Israel: They will take their food with care and their drink with wonder, so that all the wealth of their land may be taken from it because of the violent ways of the people living in it.

    20 And the peopled towns will be made waste, and the land will become a wonder; and you will be certain that I am the Lord.

    21 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

  • Ezek 4:15-17
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    15 Then he said to me, See, I have given you cow's waste in place of man's waste, and you will make your bread ready on it.

    16 And he said to me, Son of man, see, I will take away from Jerusalem her necessary bread: they will take their bread by weight and with care, measuring out their drinking-water with fear and wonder:

    17 So that they may be in need of bread and water and be wondering at one another, wasting away in their sin.

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    17 Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

  • Ezek 14:12-13
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    12 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

    13 Son of man, when a land, sinning against me, does wrong, and my hand is stretched out against it, and the support of its bread is broken, and I make it short of food, cutting off man and beast from it:

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    8 But you, son of man, give ear to what I say to you, and do not be uncontrolled like that uncontrolled people: let your mouth be open and take what I give you.

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    9 And take for yourself wheat and barley and different sorts of grain, and put them in one vessel and make bread for yourself from them; all the days when you are stretched on your side it will be your food.

    10 And you are to take your food by weight, twenty shekels a day: you are to take it at regular times.

    11 And you are to take water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: you are to take it at regular times.

    12 And let your food be barley cakes, cooking it before their eyes with the waste which comes out of a man.

    13 And the Lord said, Even so the children of Israel will have unclean bread for their food among the nations where I am driving them.

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    22 And you will do as I have done, not covering your lips or taking the food of those in grief.

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    6 Make sounds of grief, son of man; with body bent and a bitter heart make sounds of grief before their eyes.

    7 And when they say to you, Why are you making sounds of grief? then say, Because of the news, for it is coming: and every heart will become soft, and all hands will be feeble, and every spirit will be burning low, and all knees will be turned to water: see, it is coming and it will be done, says the Lord.

    8 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

  • Isa 3:1
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    1 For the Lord, the Lord of armies, is about to take away from Jerusalem and from Judah all their support; their store of bread and of water;

  • Ezek 21:12
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    12 Give loud cries and make sounds of grief, O son of man: for it has come on my people, it has come on all the rulers of Israel: fear of the sword has come on my people: for this cause give signs of grief.

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    1 And he said to me, Son of man, take this roll for your food, and go and say my words to the children of Israel.

  • Ezek 3:3-4
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    3 And he said to me, Son of man, let your stomach make a meal of it and let your inside be full of this roll which I am giving you. Then I took it, and it was sweet as honey in my mouth.

    4 And he said to me, Son of man, go now to the children of Israel, and say my words to them.

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    11 See, the days are coming, says the Lord God, when I will send times of great need on the land, not need of food or desire for water, but for hearing the words of the Lord.

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    17 All hands will be feeble and all knees without strength, like water.

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    14 You will have food, but not enough; your shame will be ever with you: you will get your goods moved, but you will not take them away safely; and what you do take away I will give to the sword.

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    12 His strength is made feeble for need of food, and destruction is waiting for his falling footstep.

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    16 Son of man, see, I am taking away the desire of your eyes by disease: but let there be no sorrow or weeping or drops running from your eyes.

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    13 For this cause says the Lord God, My servants will have food, but you will be in need of food: my servants will have drink, but you will be dry: my servants will have joy, but you will be shamed:

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    5 You have given them the bread of weeping for food; for their drink you have given them sorrow in great measure.

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    19 For in the fire of my wrath I have said, Truly, in that day there will be a great shaking in the land of Israel;

    20 So that the fish of the sea and the birds of heaven and the beasts of the field and everything moving on the earth, and all the men who are on the face of the earth, will be shaking before me, and the mountains will be overturned and the high places will come down, and every wall will come falling down to the earth.

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    13 This is what the Lord has said: Because they say to you, You, O land, are the destruction of men, causing loss of children to your nation;

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    16 Hearing it, my inner parts were moved, and my lips were shaking at the sound; my bones became feeble, and my steps were uncertain under me: I gave sounds of grief in the day of trouble, when his forces came up against the people in bands.

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    15 For this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, has said to me: Take the cup of the wine of this wrath from my hand, and make all the nations to whom I send you take of it.

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    8 Will not the land be shaking with fear because of this, and everyone in it have sorrow? and all of it will be overflowing like the River; and it will be troubled and go down again like the River of Egypt.

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    34 And after drinking it and draining it out, you will take the last drops of it to the end, pulling off your breasts: for I have said it, says the Lord.

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    2 See, I will make Jerusalem a cup of shaking fear to all the peoples round about, when Jerusalem is shut in.

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    17 Fear, and death, and the net, are come on you, O people of the earth.

    18 And it will be that he who goes in flight from the sound of fear will be overtaken by death; and he who gets free from death will be taken in the net: for the windows on high are open, and the bases of the earth are shaking.

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    23 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

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    12 Be full of wonder, O heavens, at this; be overcome with fear, be completely waste, says the Lord.

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    8 And in the morning the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

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    26 When I take away your bread of life, ten women will be cooking bread in one oven, and your bread will be measured out by weight; you will have food but never enough.

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    17 The bread of evil-doing is their food, the wine of violent acts their drink.

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    17 They will take all the produce of your fields, which would have been food for your sons and your daughters: they will take your flocks and your herds: they will take all your vines and your fig-trees: and with the sword they will make waste your walled towns in which you put your faith.

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    17 Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the children of Israel: so give ear to the word of my mouth, and give them word from me of their danger.