Ezekiel 12:18

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Son of man, eat your bread with trembling, and drink your water with shaking and anxiety.

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  • Lev 26:26 : 26 When I break your staff of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven and dole out your bread by weight, and you will eat but not be satisfied.
  • Lev 26:36 : 36 As for those of you who survive, I will bring weakness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a driven leaf will put them to flight, and they will flee as though running from a sword, though no one pursues them.
  • Deut 28:48 : 48 You will serve your enemies whom the LORD will send against you, in hunger, thirst, nakedness, and total destitution. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.
  • Deut 28:65 : 65 Among those nations, you will find no peace, and no resting place for the sole of your foot. There the LORD will give you an anxious heart, failing eyes, and a despairing soul.
  • Job 3:24 : 24 For my sighing comes before my food, and my groanings pour out like water.
  • Ps 60:2-3 : 2 When he fought against Aram-Naharaim and Aram-Zobah, and Joab returned and struck down twelve thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt. 3 You, O God, have rejected us and broken us; you have been angry—restore us again.
  • Ps 80:5 : 5 LORD God of Hosts, how long will you be angry with your people's prayers?
  • Ps 102:4-9 : 4 For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones are burned like a hearth. 5 My heart is afflicted and withered like grass, for I forget to eat my food. 6 Because of my groaning, my bones cling to my flesh. 7 I am like a desert owl, like an owl among the ruins. 8 I lie awake; I am like a lonely bird on a housetop. 9 All day long my enemies taunt me; those who ridicule me use my name as a curse.
  • Lam 5:9 : 9 We risk our lives to bring in our bread because of the sword in the wilderness.
  • Ezek 4:16-17 : 16 Then He said to me, 'Son of man, I am about to cut off the supply of bread in Jerusalem. They will eat bread by weight and in anxiety, and they will drink water by measure and in despair.' 17 'In this way, they will lack bread and water, and they will be appalled at one another and waste away because of their iniquity.'
  • Ezek 23:33 : 33 It will be a cup filled with drunkenness and sorrow, a cup of horror and desolation, the cup of your sister Samaria.

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  • 87%

    19Say to the people of the land, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says about the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the land of Israel: They will eat their bread with anxiety and drink their water in desolation, for their land will be stripped of all it contains because of the violence of all who live there.’

    20The inhabited cities will be laid waste, and the land will become desolate. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

    21The word of the LORD came to me, saying:

  • Ezek 4:15-17
    3 verses
    82%

    15He said to me, 'Look, I have given you cow dung instead of human excrement, and you may use it to bake your bread.'

    16Then He said to me, 'Son of man, I am about to cut off the supply of bread in Jerusalem. They will eat bread by weight and in anxiety, and they will drink water by measure and in despair.'

    17'In this way, they will lack bread and water, and they will be appalled at one another and waste away because of their iniquity.'

  • 17The word of the LORD came to me, saying:

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    12The word of the LORD came to me, saying:

    13Son of man, if a land sins against me by acting faithlessly, and I stretch out my hand against it, breaking its supply of bread, sending famine upon it, and cutting off from it both man and beast,

  • 8But you, son of man, listen to what I say to you. Do not be rebellious like this rebellious house. Open your mouth and eat what I am giving you.

  • Ezek 4:9-13
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    9Take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt, put them in one container, and make bread for yourself. For the number of days that you lie on your side—three hundred ninety days—you will eat it.

    10The amount you eat each day will be twenty shekels by weight, and you will eat it at set times each day.

    11You are to drink water by measure, a sixth of a hin, at set times each day.

    12Eat it as you would a barley cake, baking it over human dung in their sight.

    13The Lord said, 'In this way the people of Israel will eat their defiled bread among the nations where I will drive them.'

  • 22You shall do as I have done; you shall not cover your lips nor eat the bread of mourning.

  • Ezek 21:6-8
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    6Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying:

    7Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem, preach against the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel.

    8Say to the land of Israel, 'This is what the LORD says: Behold, I am against you. I will draw My sword from its sheath and cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked.

  • 1See now, the Lord, the LORD of Hosts, is removing from Jerusalem and Judah support and supply, both bread and water.

  • 12And when they ask you, 'Why are you groaning?' you are to say, 'Because of the news that is coming; every heart will melt, every hand will go weak, every spirit will grow faint, and every knee will turn to water. Behold, it is coming, and it will happen,' declares the Sovereign LORD.

  • 1He said to me, "Son of man, eat what you find; eat this scroll, then go and speak to the house of Israel."

  • Ezek 3:3-4
    2 verses
    70%

    3He said to me, "Son of man, let this scroll fill your stomach and satisfy your insides. I ate it, and it tasted as sweet as honey in my mouth."

    4Then he said to me, "Son of man, go to the house of Israel and speak my words to them."

  • 11'Behold, the days are coming,' declares the Lord God, 'when I will send a famine on the land—not a famine of bread or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the Lord.'

  • 17All hands will hang limp, and every knee will become weak as water.

  • 14You will eat but not be satisfied, and your emptiness will remain within you. You will store up but not save, and what you do save, I will give over to the sword.

  • 12Hunger consumes his strength, and calamity is ready at his side.

  • 16Son of man, behold, I am about to take from you the delight of your eyes with a single blow. But you shall not mourn or weep, and your tears shall not flow.

  • 13Therefore, this is what the Lord GOD says: 'Behold, my servants will eat, but you will go hungry; behold, my servants will drink, but you will go thirsty; behold, my servants will rejoice, but you will be put to shame.'

  • 5LORD God of Hosts, how long will you be angry with your people's prayers?

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    19In my zeal and fiery wrath I declare: On that day, there will be a great earthquake in the land of Israel.

    20The fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the animals of the field, every creature that moves along the ground, and all the people on the face of the earth will tremble at my presence. The mountains will be overturned, the cliffs will crumble, and every wall will fall to the ground.

  • 13This is what the Lord GOD says: Because people say to you, ‘You devour humans and make your nations childless,’

  • 16I heard, and my heart pounded; my lips quivered at the sound. Decay crept into my bones, and I trembled where I stood. Yet I will wait patiently for the day of calamity to come upon the nation invading us.

  • 15This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, said to me: 'Take this cup of the wine of wrath from my hand and make all the nations to whom I send you drink it.'

  • 8Shall not the land tremble on account of this, and all who live in it mourn? The whole land will rise like the Nile; it will be tossed about and then sink again like the Nile of Egypt.

  • 34You will drink it and drain it dry, and then gnaw on its broken pieces and tear your breasts. For I have spoken, declares the Sovereign LORD.

  • 2Behold, I am making Jerusalem a cup of reeling for all the surrounding nations. Even Judah will be besieged as Jerusalem is attacked.

  • Isa 24:17-18
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    17Terror, pit, and snare confront you, O inhabitant of the earth.

    18Whoever flees at the sound of terror will fall into the pit, and whoever climbs out of the pit will be caught in the snare; for the floodgates of the heavens are opened, and the foundations of the earth shake.

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    23The word of the LORD came to me, saying:

    24Son of man, say to the land: You are a land that is not cleansed or rained on in the day of wrath.

  • 12Be appalled at this, you heavens, and shudder with great horror,” declares the LORD.

  • 8Then in the morning, the word of the LORD came to me, saying:

  • 7You have not given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.

  • 26When I break your staff of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven and dole out your bread by weight, and you will eat but not be satisfied.

  • 17They eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.

  • 17They will consume your harvest and your bread, devour your sons and daughters, eat your flocks and herds, and consume your vines and fig trees. With the sword, they will destroy your fortified cities in which you trust.

  • 17"Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel. Whenever you hear a word from My mouth, give them warning from Me.