Ezekiel 12:18 ““Son of man, eat your bread with trembling, and drink your water with…”

Ezekiel 12:18

“Son of man, eat your bread with trembling, and drink your water with quivering and anxiety.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with carefulness;

World English Bible

“Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink your water with trembling and with fearfulness.

American Standard Version

Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with fearfulness;

Geneva Bible 1599

Sonne of man, eate thy bread with trembling and drinke thy water with trouble, and with carefulnesse,

Darby Translation

Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with anxiety;

Young's Literal Translation

'Son of man, thy bread in haste thou dost eat, and thy water with trembling and with fear thou dost drink;

Bible in Basic English

Son of man, take your food with shaking fear, and your water with trouble and care;

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Cross references

“Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with carefulness;”

Leviticus 26:26 Leviticus 26:36 Deuteronomy 28:48 Deuteronomy 28:65 Job 3:24 Psalm 80:5

Leviticus 26:26 · BSB

When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and dole out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.

Leviticus 26:36 · BSB

As for those of you who survive, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies, so that even the sound of a windblown leaf will put them to flight. And they will flee as one flees the sword, and…

Deuteronomy 28:48 · BSB

you will serve your enemies the LORD will send against you in famine, thirst, nakedness, and destitution. He will place an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.

Deuteronomy 28:65 · BSB

Among those nations you will find no repose, not even a resting place for the sole of your foot. There the LORD will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and a despairing soul.

Job 3:24 · BSB

I sigh when food is put before me, and my groans pour out like water.

Psalm 80:5 · BSB

You fed them with the bread of tears and made them drink the full measure of their tears.

Also

Lamentations 5:9

Lamentations 5:9 · BSB

We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

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

19Then tell the people of the land that this is what the Lord GOD says about those living in Jerusalem and in the land of Israel: ‘They will eat their bread with anxiety and drink their water in dread, for their land will be stripped of everything in it because of the violence of all who dwell in it.

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