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Bible in Basic English
Son of man, take your food with shaking fear, and your water with trouble and care;
New American Standard Bible
“Son of man,
King James Version
Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with carefulness;
Holman Bible
“Son of man, eat your bread with
International Standard Version
"Son of Man, eat your bread with trembling and drink your water with quivering and anxiety.
A Conservative Version
Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy 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;
Amplified
“Son of man, eat your bread with anxiety, and drink your water with trembling and with fear.
Darby Translation
Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with anxiety;
Julia Smith Translation
Son of man, thou shalt eat thy bread with trembling, and thou shalt drink thy water with disquiet and with dread;
King James 2000
Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink your water with trembling and with anxiety;
Lexham Expanded Bible
"Son of man, you must eat your food with trembling, and your water with shuddering, and with anxiety you must drink.
Modern King James verseion
Son of man, eat your bread with quaking and drink your water with trembling and anxiety.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
"Thou son of man: with a fearful trembling shalt thou eat thy bread, with carefulness and sorrow shalt thou drink thy water.
NET Bible
"Son of man, eat your bread with trembling, and drink your water with anxious shaking.
New Heart English Bible
"Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink your water with trembling and with fearfulness;
The Emphasized Bible
Son of man, Thy bread, with trembling, shalt thou eat, - And thy water, in agitation and in fear, shalt thou drink.
Webster
Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with solicitude.
World English Bible
Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink your water with trembling and with fearfulness;
Youngs Literal Translation
'Son of man, thy bread in haste thou dost eat, and thy water with trembling and with fear thou dost drink;
Themes
Instruction » Eating and drinking sparingly
Interlinear
Lechem
Mayim
References
Watsons
Word Count of 20 Translations in Ezekiel 12:18
Verse Info
Context Readings
Ezekiel Dramatizes Israel's Anxiety
17 Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 18 Son of man, take your food with shaking fear, and your water with trouble and care; 19 And say to the people of the land, This is what the Lord has said about the people of Jerusalem and the land of Israel: They will take their food with care and their drink with wonder, so that all the wealth of their land may be taken from it because of the violent ways of the people living in it.
Phrases
Cross References
Leviticus 26:26
When I take away your bread of life, ten women will be cooking bread in one oven, and your bread will be measured out by weight; you will have food but never enough.
Leviticus 26:36
And as for the rest of you, I will make their hearts feeble in the land of their haters, and the sound of a leaf moved by the wind will send them in flight, and they will go in flight as from the sword, falling down when no one comes after them;
Deuteronomy 28:48
For this cause you will become servants to those whom the Lord your God will send against you, without food and drink and clothing, and in need of all things: and he will put a yoke of iron on your neck till he has put an end to you.
Deuteronomy 28:65
And even among these nations there will be no peace for you, and no rest for your feet: but the Lord will give you there a shaking heart and wasting eyes and weariness of soul:
Job 3:24
In place of my food I have grief, and cries of sorrow come from me like water.
Psalm 60:2-3
You have made the people see hard times; you have given us the wine of shaking for our drink.
Psalm 80:5
You have given them the bread of weeping for food; for their drink you have given them sorrow in great measure.
Lamentations 5:9
We put our lives in danger to get our bread, because of the sword of the waste land.
Ezekiel 4:16-17
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:
Ezekiel 23:33
You will be broken and full of sorrow, with the cup of wonder and destruction, with the cup of your sister Samaria.