Ezekiel 4:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And see, I will put bands on you; and you will be stretched out without turning from one side to the other till the days of your attack are ended.

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  • Ezek 3:25 : 25 But see, O son of man, I will put bands on you, prisoning you in them, and you will not go out among them:

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  • Ezek 4:1-7
    7 verses
    85%

    1 And you, son of man, take a back and put it before you and on it make a picture of a town, even Jerusalem.

    2 And make an attack on it, shutting it in, building strong places against it, and making high an earthwork against it; and put up tents against it, placing engines all round it for smashing down its walls.

    3 And take a flat iron plate, and put it for a wall of iron between you and the town: and let your face be turned to it, and it will be shut in and you will make an attack on it. This will be a sign to the children of Israel.

    4 Then, stretching yourself out on your left side, take the sin of the children of Israel on yourself: for as long as you are stretched out, so long will the sin of the children of Israel be on you.

    5 For I have had the years of their sin measured for you by a number of days, even three hundred and ninety days: and you will take on yourself the sin of the children of Israel.

    6 And when these days are ended, turning on your right side, you are to take on yourself the sin of the children of Judah: forty days, a day for a year, I have had it fixed for you.

    7 And let your face be turned to where Jerusalem is shut in, with your arm uncovered, and be a prophet against it.

  • Ezek 4:9-10
    2 verses
    82%

    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.

  • 25 But see, O son of man, I will put bands on you, prisoning you in them, and you will not go out among them:

  • 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.

  • Ezek 12:4-8
    5 verses
    74%

    4 By day, before their eyes, take out your vessels like those of one who is taken away: and go out in the evening before their eyes, like those who are taken away as prisoners.

    5 Make a hole in the wall, before their eyes, and go out through it.

    6 And before their eyes, take your goods on your back and go out in the dark; go with your face covered: for I have made you a sign to the children of Israel.

    7 And I did as I was ordered: I took out my vessels by day, like those of one who is taken away, and in the evening I made a hole through the wall with a tent-pin; and in the dark I went out, taking my things on my back before their eyes.

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

  • 3 And I will make war on you like David, and you will be shut in by earthworks, and I will make towers round you.

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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.

    23 And your head-dresses will be on your heads and your shoes on your feet: there will be no sorrow or weeping; but you will be wasting away in the punishment of your evil-doing, and you will be looking at one another in wonder.

    24 And Ezekiel will be a sign to you; everything he has done you will do: when this takes place, you will be certain that I am the Lord.

  • 8 And it will come about, that if any nation does not become a servant to this same Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, and does not put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, then I will send punishment on that nation, says the Lord, by the sword and need of food and by disease, till I have given them into his hands.

  • 43 For the time will come when your attackers will put a wall round you, and come all round you and keep you in on every side,

  • 14 Will your heart be high or your hands strong in the days when I take you in hand? I the Lord have said it and will do it.

  • 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.

  • Ezek 4:15-16
    2 verses
    72%

    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:

  • 2 You are to have a third part burned with fire inside the town, when the days of the attack are ended; and a third part you are to take and give blows with the sword round about it; and give a third part for the wind to take away, and let loose a sword after them.

  • 17 See, O strong man, the Lord will send you violently away, gripping you with force,

  • 4 Now see, this day I am freeing you from the chains which are on your hands. If it seems good to you to come with me to Babylon, then come, and I will keep an eye on you; but if it does not seem good to you to come with me to Babylon, then do not come: see, all the land is before you; if it seems good and right to you to go on living in the land,

  • 4 And though they are taken away as prisoners by their attackers, even there will I give orders to the sword to put them to death: my eyes will be fixed on them for evil and not for good.

  • 3 And you will not get away from him, but will certainly be taken and given up into his hands; and you will see the king of Babylon, eye to eye, and he will have talk with you, mouth to mouth, and you will go to Babylon.

  • 4 The Lord God of Israel has said, See, I am turning back the instruments of war in your hands, with which you are fighting against the king of Babylon and the Chaldaeans, who are outside the walls and shutting you in; and I will get them together inside this town.

  • 2 This is what the Lord has said to me: Make for yourself bands and yokes and put them on your neck;

  • 24 See, they have made earthworks against the town to take it; and the town is given into the hands of the Chaldaeans who are fighting against it, because of the sword and need of food and disease: and what you have said has taken place, and truly you see it.

  • 16 Be pointed to the right, to the left, wherever your edge is ordered.

  • 11 Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

  • 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.

  • 52 Your towns will be shut in by his armies, till your high walls, in which you put your faith, have come down: his armies will be round your towns, through all your land which the Lord your God has given you.

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

  • Jer 1:17-18
    2 verses
    70%

    17 So make yourself ready, and go and say to them everything I give you orders to say: do not be overcome by fear of them, or I will send fear on you before them.

    18 For see, this day have I made you a walled town, and an iron pillar, and walls of brass, against all the land, against the kings of Judah, against its captains, against its priests, and against the people of the land.

  • 2 And turning you round, I will be your guide, and make you come up from the inmost parts of the north; I will make you come on to the mountains of Israel:

  • 14 The prisoner, bent under his chain, will quickly be made free, and will not go down into the underworld, and his bread will not come to an end.

  • 9 I will make them take the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters for food, they will be making a meal of one another, because of their bitter need and the cruel grip of their haters and those who have made designs against their life.

  • 8 After a long time you will get your orders: in the last years you will come into the land which has been given back from the sword, which has been got together out of a great number of peoples, on the mountains of Israel which have ever been a waste: but it has been taken out from the peoples and they will be living, all of them, without fear of danger.

  • 20 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

  • 4 For the Lord has said, See, I will make you a cause of fear to yourself and to all your friends: they will come to their death by the sword of their haters, and your eyes will see it: and I will give all Judah into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he will take them away prisoners into Babylon and put them to the sword.

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

  • 8 Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

  • 4 Take the band which you got for a price, which is round your body, and go to Parah and put it in a secret place there in a hole of the rock.