Ezekiel 4:17

KJV1611 – Modern English

That they may lack bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and waste away for their iniquity.

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  • Lev 26:39 : 39 And those who are left of you shall waste away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they waste away with them.
  • Ezek 24:23 : 23 And your turbans shall be upon your heads, and your shoes upon your feet: you shall not mourn nor weep; but you shall waste away for your iniquities, and mourn one toward another.
  • Ezek 33:10 : 10 Therefore, O son of man, speak to the house of Israel; this is what you speak, saying, If our transgressions and our sins are upon us, and we waste away in them, how should we then live?

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    17Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

    18Son of man, eat your bread with trembling, and drink your water with shaking and with anxiety;

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  • Isa 8:21-22
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    21And they shall pass through it, hard-pressed and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.

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    13Son of man, when the land sins against me by trespassing grievously, then will I stretch out my hand upon it and will break the staff of the bread thereof, and will send famine upon it, and will cut off man and beast from it;

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    17All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.

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    38And you shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.

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