Verse 16
Ezekiel 4:16
Bible in Basic English
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And he said to me, Son of man, see, I will take away from Jerusalem her necessary bread: they will take their bread by weight and with care, measuring out their drinking-water with fear and wonder:
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר אֵלַ֗/י בֶּן אָדָם֙ הִנְ/נִ֨י שֹׁבֵ֤ר מַטֵּה לֶ֨חֶם֙ בִּ/יר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם וְ/אָכְלוּ לֶ֥חֶם בְּ/מִשְׁקָ֖ל וּ/בִ/דְאָגָ֑ה וּ/מַ֕יִם בִּ/מְשׂוּרָ֥ה וּ/בְ/שִׁמָּמ֖וֹן יִשְׁתּֽוּ
English Translation
And he said to me, "Son of man, behold, I am breaking the staff of bread in Jerusalem, and they will eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and they will drink water by measure and in desolation."
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Chapter 4 Context
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And you, son of man, take a back and put it before you and on it make a picture of a town, even Jeru...
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And make an attack on it, shutting it in, building strong places against it, and making high an eart...
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And take a flat iron plate, and put it for a wall of iron between you and the town: and let your fac...
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4
Then, stretching yourself out on your left side, take the sin of the children of Israel on yourself:...
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5
For I have had the years of their sin measured for you by a number of days, even three hundred and n...
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6
And when these days are ended, turning on your right side, you are to take on yourself the sin of th...
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7
And let your face be turned to where Jerusalem is shut in, with your arm uncovered, and be a prophet...
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8
And see, I will put bands on you; and you will be stretched out without turning from one side to the...
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9
And take for yourself wheat and barley and different sorts of grain, and put them in one vessel and...
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10
And you are to take your food by weight, twenty shekels a day: you are to take it at regular times.
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11
And you are to take water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: you are to take it at regular times.
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12
And let your food be barley cakes, cooking it before their eyes with the waste which comes out of a...
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13
And the Lord said, Even so the children of Israel will have unclean bread for their food among the n...
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14
Then I said, Ah, Lord! see, my soul has never been unclean, and I have never taken as my food anythi...
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15
Then he said to me, See, I have given you cow's waste in place of man's waste, and you will make you...
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16
And he said to me, Son of man, see, I will take away from Jerusalem her necessary bread: they will t...
17
So that they may be in need of bread and water and be wondering at one another, wasting away in thei...
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