Ezekiel 12:18
“Son of man, eat your bread with trembling, and drink your water with anxious shaking.
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- Lev 26:26 : 26 When I break off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven; they will ration your bread by weight, and you will eat and not be satisfied.
- Lev 26:36 : 36 “‘As for the ones who remain among you, I will bring despair into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a blowing leaf will pursue them, and they will flee as one who flees the sword and fall down even though there is no pursuer.
- Deut 28:48 : 48 instead in hunger, thirst, nakedness, and poverty you will serve your enemies whom the LORD will send against you. They will place an iron yoke on your neck until they have destroyed you.
- Deut 28:65 : 65 Among those nations you will have no rest nor will there be a place of peaceful rest for the soles of your feet, for there the LORD will give you an anxious heart, failing eyesight, and a spirit of despair.
- Job 3:24 : 24 For my sighing comes in place of my food, and my groanings flow forth like water.
- Ps 60:2-3 : 2 You made the earth quake; you split it open. Repair its breaches, for it is ready to fall. 3 You have made your people experience hard times; you have made us drink intoxicating wine.
- Ps 80:5 : 5 You have given them tears as food; you have made them drink tears by the measure.
- Ps 102:4-9 : 4 My heart is parched and withered like grass, for I am unable to eat food. 5 Because of the anxiety that makes me groan, my bones protrude from my skin. 6 I am like an owl in the wilderness; I am like a screech owl among the ruins. 7 I stay awake; I am like a solitary bird on a roof. 8 All day long my enemies taunt me; those who mock me use my name in their curses. 9 For I eat ashes as if they were bread, and mix my drink with my tears,
- Lam 5:9 : 9 At the risk of our lives we get our food because robbers lurk in the wilderness.
- Ezek 4:16-17 : 16 Then he said to me,“Son of man, I am about to remove the bread supply in Jerusalem. They will eat their bread ration anxiously, and they will drink their water ration in terror 17 because they will lack bread and water. Each one will be terrified, and they will rot for their iniquity.
- Ezek 23:33 : 33 You will be overcome by drunkenness and sorrow. The cup of your sister Samaria is a cup of horror and desolation.
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- Ezek 12:19-213 verses87%
19 Then say to the people of the land,‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says about the inhabitants of Jerusalem and of the land of Israel: They will eat their bread with anxiety and drink their water in fright, for their land will be stripped bare of all it contains because of the violence of all who live in it.
20 The inhabited towns will be left in ruins and the land will be devastated. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’”
21 The LORD’s message came to me:
- Ezek 4:15-173 verses82%
15 So he said to me,“All right then, I will substitute cow’s manure instead of human excrement. You will cook your food over it.”
16 Then he said to me,“Son of man, I am about to remove the bread supply in Jerusalem. They will eat their bread ration anxiously, and they will drink their water ration in terror
17 because they will lack bread and water. Each one will be terrified, and they will rot for their iniquity.
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17 The LORD’s message came to me:
- Ezek 14:12-132 verses74%
12 The LORD’s message came to me:
13 “Son of man, suppose a country sins against me by being unfaithful, and I stretch out my hand against it, cut off its bread supply, cause famine to come on it, and kill both people and animals.
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8 As for you, son of man, listen to what I am saying to you: Do not rebel like that rebellious house! Open your mouth and eat what I am giving you.”
- Ezek 4:9-135 verses71%
9 “As for you, take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt, put them in a single container, and make food from them for yourself. For the same number of days that you lie on your side– 390 days– you will eat it.
10 The food you eat will be eight ounces a day by weight; you must eat it at fixed times.
11 And you must drink water by measure, a pint and a half; you must drink it at fixed times.
12 And you must eat the food like you would a barley cake. You must bake it in front of them over a fire made with dried human excrement.”
13 And the LORD said,“This is how the people of Israel will eat their unclean food among the nations where I will banish them.”
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22 Then you will do as I have done: You will not cover your lip or eat food brought by others.
- Ezek 21:6-83 verses70%
6 “And you, son of man, groan with an aching heart and bitterness; groan before their eyes.
7 When they ask you,‘Why are you groaning?’ you will reply,‘Because of the report that has come. Every heart will melt with fear and every hand will be limp; everyone will faint and every knee will be wet with urine.’ Pay attention– it is coming and it will happen, declares the Sovereign LORD.”
8 The LORD’s message came to me:
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1 A Coming Leadership Crisis Look, the Sovereign LORD of Heaven’s Armies is about to remove from Jerusalem and Judah every source of security, including all the food and water,
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12 Cry out and moan, son of man, for it is wielded against my people; against all the princes of Israel. They are delivered up to the sword, along with my people. Therefore, strike your thigh.
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1 He said to me,“Son of man, eat what you see in front of you– eat this scroll– and then go and speak to the house of Israel.”
- Ezek 3:3-42 verses70%
3 He said to me,“Son of man, feed your stomach and fill your belly with this scroll I am giving to you.” So I ate it, and it was sweet like honey in my mouth.
4 He said to me,“Son of man, go to the house of Israel and speak my words to them.
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11 Be certain of this, the time is coming,” says the Sovereign LORD,“when I will send a famine through the land– not a shortage of food or water but an end to divine revelation!
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17 All of their hands will hang limp; their knees will be wet with urine.
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14 You will eat, but not be satisfied. Even if you have the strength to overtake some prey, you will not be able to carry it away; if you do happen to carry away something, I will deliver it over to the sword.
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12 Calamity is hungry for him, and misfortune is ready at his side.
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16 “Son of man, realize that I am about to take the delight of your eyes away from you with a jolt, but you must not mourn or weep or shed tears.
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13 So this is what the Sovereign LORD says:“Look, my servants will eat, but you will be hungry! Look, my servants will drink, but you will be thirsty! Look, my servants will rejoice, but you will be humiliated!
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5 You have given them tears as food; you have made them drink tears by the measure.
- Ezek 38:19-202 verses68%
19 In my zeal, in the fire of my fury, I declare that on that day there will be a great earthquake in the land of Israel.
20 The fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the wild beasts, all the things that creep on the ground, and all people who live on the face of the earth will shake at my presence. The mountains will topple, the cliffs will fall, and every wall will fall to the ground.
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13 “‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Because they are saying to you,“You are a devourer of men, and bereave your nation of children,”
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16 Habakkuk Declares His Confidence I listened and my stomach churned; the sound made my lips quiver. My frame went limp, as if my bones were decaying, and I shook as I tried to walk. I long for the day of distress to come upon the people who attack us.
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15 Judah and the Nations Will Experience God’s Wrath So the LORD, the God of Israel, spoke to me in a vision.“Take this cup from my hand. It is filled with the wine of my wrath. Take it and make the nations to whom I send you drink it.
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8 Because of this the earth will quake, and all who live in it will mourn. The whole earth will rise like the River Nile, it will surge upward and then grow calm, like the Nile in Egypt.
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34 You will drain it dry, gnaw its pieces, and tear out your breasts, for I have spoken, declares the Sovereign LORD.
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2 “I am about to make Jerusalem a cup that brings dizziness to all the surrounding nations; indeed, Judah will also be included when Jerusalem is besieged.
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17 Terror, pit, and snare are ready to overtake you inhabitants of the earth!
18 The one who runs away from the sound of the terror will fall into the pit; the one who climbs out of the pit, will be trapped by the snare. For the floodgates of the heavens are opened up and the foundations of the earth shake.
- Ezek 22:23-242 verses68%
23 The LORD’s message came to me:
24 “Son of man, say to her:‘You are a land that receives no rain or showers in the day of my anger.’
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12 Be amazed at this, O heavens! Be shocked and utterly dumbfounded,” says the LORD.
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8 The LORD’s message came to me in the morning:
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7 You gave the weary no water to drink and from the hungry you withheld food.
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26 When I break off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven; they will ration your bread by weight, and you will eat and not be satisfied.
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17 Indeed they have eaten bread gained from wickedness and drink wine obtained from violence.
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17 They will eat up your crops and your food. They will kill off your sons and your daughters. They will eat up your sheep and your cattle. They will destroy your vines and your fig trees. Their weapons will batter down the fortified cities you trust in.
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17 “Son of man, I have appointed you a watchman for the house of Israel. Whenever you hear a word from my mouth, you must give them a warning from me.