Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
"Son of Man, eat your bread with trembling and drink your water with quivering and anxiety.
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
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.
Bible in Basic English
Son of man, take your food with shaking fear, and your water with trouble and care;
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 This message came to me from the LORD: 18 "Son of Man, eat your bread with trembling and drink your water with quivering and anxiety. 19 Then tell the people of the land, "This is what the LORD says to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to Israel's land: "They'll eat their food in anxiety and drink their water in trepidation, because their land will be desolate in its entirety due to all the violence committed by all who live in it.
Phrases
Cross References
Leviticus 26:26
When I destroy the source of your bread, ten women will bake bread in one oven. Then they'll return back your bread by weight. You'll eat but won't be satisfied.
Leviticus 26:36
"As for the remnants among you, I'll bring despair in their hearts in the land of their enemies so that even the sound of a blown leaf will chase them and they flee as though pursued by the sword and fall when no one is pursuing.
Deuteronomy 28:48
you'll serve your enemies whom the LORD your God will send against you. You will serve in famine and in drought, in nakedness, and in lack of everything. They'll set a yoke of iron upon your neck until they have exterminated you.
Deuteronomy 28:65
Among those nations you'll have no rest. There'll be no resting place for the soles of your feet. Instead, the LORD will give you an anxious heart, failing eyesight, and a despairing spirit.
Job 3:24
"As far as I'm concerned, my food comes to me in the form of sighs, and my cries of anguish pour out like water.
Psalm 60:2-3
You made the earth quake; you broke it open. Repair its fractures, because it has shifted.
Psalm 80:5
You fed them tears as their food, and caused them to drink a full measure of tears.
Psalm 102:4-9
Withered like grass, my heart is overwhelmed, and I have even forgotten to eat my food.
Lamentations 5:9
We risk our lives to obtain our food, facing death in the desert.
Ezekiel 4:16-17
He also told me, "Son of Man, look! I'm about to disrupt the source of bread in Jerusalem. As a result, they'll ration bread by weight while their terror continues to grow and they'll ration drinking water while their horror continues to mount!
Ezekiel 23:33
You'll be filled with drunkenness and grief. The cup that belongs to your sister Samaria is filled with horror and devastation,