Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
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 Moreover, the word of the LORD came unto me saying, 18 "Thou son of man: with a fearful trembling shalt thou eat thy bread, with carefulness and sorrow shalt thou drink thy water. 19 And unto the people of the land, speak thou on this manner: 'Thus sayeth the LORD God to them that dwell in Jerusalem, and to the land of Israel: Ye shall eat your bread with sorrow, and drink your water with heaviness. Yea, the land with the fullness thereof shall be laid waste, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
Phrases
Cross References
Leviticus 26:26
And when I have broken the staff of your bread: that ten wives shall bake your bread in one oven and men shall deliver you your bread again by weight, then shall ye eat and shall not be satisfied.
Leviticus 26:36
"'And upon them that are left alive of you, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the land of their enemies: so that the sound of a leaf that falleth, shall chase them and they shall flee as though they fled a sword, and shall fall no man following them.
Deuteronomy 28:48
therefore thou shalt serve thine enemy which the LORD shall send upon thee: in hunger and thirst, in nakedness and in need of all things. And he shall put a yoke of iron upon thine neck, until he have brought thee to nought.
Deuteronomy 28:65
And among these nations thou shalt be no small season, and yet shalt have no rest for the sole of thy foot. For the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart and dazing eyes and sorrow of mind.
Job 3:24
For my sighs come before I eat, and my roarings fall out like flowing water.
Psalm 60:2-3
Thou that hast moved the land, and divided it; heal the sores thereof, for it shaketh.
Psalm 80:5
Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, yea thou hast given them plenteousness of tears to drink.
Psalm 102:4-9
My heart is smitten down, and withered like grass, so that I forget to eat my bread.
Lamentations 5:9
We must get our living with the peril of our lives because of the drought of the wilderness.
Ezekiel 4:16-17
And he said unto me, "Behold thou son of man, I will minish all the provision of bread in Jerusalem, so that they shall weigh their bread, and eat it with scarceness. But as for water, they shall have a very little measure thereof, to drink.
Ezekiel 23:33
Thou shalt be full of drunkenness and sorrow, for the cup of thy sister Samaria is a cup of destruction and wasting: