Ezekiel 4:16
Then He told me, “Son of man, I am going to cut off the supply of food in Jerusalem. They will anxiously eat bread rationed by weight, and in despair they will drink water by measure.
Note Hebrew staff
Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment:
Moreover he said to me, “Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem. They will eat bread by weight, and with fearfulness. They will drink water by measure, and in dismay;
Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with fearfulness; and they shall drink water by measure, and in dismay:
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- I will
- Ezekiel 5:16; Ezekiel 14:13; Leviticus 26:26; Psalm 105:16; Isaiah 3:1
- eat
- The prophet was allowed each day only twenty shekels weight, or about ten ounces, of the coarse food he had prepared, and the sixth part of a hin, scarcely a pint and a half, of water; all of which was intended to shew that they should be obliged to eat the meanest and coarsest food, and that by weight, and their water by measure.
- Ezekiel 4:10, 11; Ezekiel 12:18, 19; Psalm 60:3; Lamentations 1:11; Lamentations 4:9, 10; Lamentations 5:9