Ezekiel 4:17

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Lev 26:39 : 39 Those of you who remain will waste away in their iniquity in the lands of your enemies; and also because of the iniquities of their ancestors, they will waste away with them.
  • Ezek 24:23 : 23 Your turbans shall be on your heads and your sandals on your feet. You shall not mourn or weep, but you shall waste away in your iniquities and groan to one another.
  • Ezek 33:10 : 10 Son of man, say to the house of Israel, 'This is what you are saying: Our offenses and sins weigh us down, and we are wasting away because of them. How then can we live?'

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

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  • Isa 8:21-22
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    21 Distressed and hungry, they will roam through the land; when they are famished, they will become enraged, and looking upward, they will curse their king and their God.

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    13 Son 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,

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

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    9 Those slain by the sword are better off than those dying of hunger, wasting away, pierced by lack of the fruits of the field.

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    14 You 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.

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    16 They have made their land a desolation, a perpetual object of scorn. All who pass by it are appalled and shake their heads.

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