Ezekiel 12:18
Good News Translation
"Mortal man," he said, "tremble when you eat, and shake with fear when you drink.

New Revised Standard Version
Mortal, eat your bread with quaking, and drink your water with trembling and with fearfulness;

Contemporary English Version
Ezekiel, son of man, shake with fear when you eat, and tremble when you drink.

New American Bible
Son of man, eat your bread trembling and drink your water shaking with fear.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Son of man, eat thy bread in trouble and drink thy water in hurry and sorrow.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Son of man, eat thy bread in trouble and drink thy water in hurry and sorrow.

Ezekiel 4:16,17 And he said to me: Son of man: Behold, I will break in pieces the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care: and they shall drink water by measure, and in distress. . . .

Ezekiel 23:33 Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness, and sorrow: with the cup of grief and sadness, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.

Leviticus 26:26,36 After I shall have broken the staff of your bread: so that ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and give it out by weight: and you shall eat, and shall not be filled, . . .

Deuteronomy 28:48,65 Thou shalt serve thy enemy, whom the Lord will send upon thee, in hunger, and thirst, and nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put an iron yoke upon thy neck, till he consume thee. . . .

Job 3:24 Before I eat I sigh: and as overflowing waters, so is my roaring:

Psalm 60:2,3 Thou hast moved the earth, and hast troubled it: heal thou the breaches thereof, for it has been moved. . . .

Psalm 80:5 How long wilt thou feed us with the bread of tears: and give us for our drink tears in measure?

Psalm 102:4-9 I am smitten as grass, and my heart is withered: because I forgot to eat my bread. . . .

Context
Signs of the Coming Captivity
17And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: 18Son of man, eat thy bread in trouble and drink thy water in hurry and sorrow.19And say to the people of the land: Thus saith the Lord God to them that dwell in Jerusalem in the land of Israel: They shall eat their bread in care, and drink their water in desolation: that the land may become desolate from the multitude that is therein, for the iniquity of all that dwell therein.…
Cross References
Lamentations 5:9
We fetched our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the desert.

Ezekiel 4:16
And he said to me: Son of man: Behold, I will break in pieces the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care: and they shall drink water by measure, and in distress.

Ezekiel 12:17
And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

Daniel 10:7
And I, Daniel alone, saw the vision: for the men that were with me saw it not: but an exceeding great terror fell upon them, and they fled away, and hid themselves.

Ezekiel 12:17
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