Parallel Verses
NET Bible
"Son of man, eat your bread with trembling, and drink your water with anxious shaking.
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.
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 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 The word of the Lord came to me: 18 "Son of man, eat your bread with trembling, and drink your water with anxious shaking. 19 Then say to the people of the land, 'This is what the sovereign Lord says about the inhabitants of Jerusalem and of the land of Israel: They will eat their bread with anxiety and drink their water in fright, for their land will be stripped bare of all it contains because of the violence of all who live in it.
Phrases
Cross References
Leviticus 26:26
When I break off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven; they will ration your bread by weight, and you will eat and not be satisfied.
Leviticus 26:36
"'As for the ones who remain among you, I will bring despair into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a blowing leaf will pursue them, and they will flee as one who flees the sword and fall down even though there is no pursuer.
Deuteronomy 28:48
instead in hunger, thirst, nakedness, and poverty you will serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you. They will place an iron yoke on your neck until they have destroyed you.
Deuteronomy 28:65
Among those nations you will have no rest nor will there be a place of peaceful rest for the soles of your feet, for there the Lord will give you an anxious heart, failing eyesight, and a spirit of despair.
Job 3:24
For my sighing comes in place of my food, and my groanings flow forth like water.
Psalm 60:2-3
You made the earth quake; you split it open. Repair its breaches, for it is ready to fall.
Psalm 80:5
You have given them tears as food; you have made them drink tears by the measure.
Psalm 102:4-9
My heart is parched and withered like grass, for I am unable to eat food.
Lamentations 5:9
At the risk of our lives we get our food because robbers lurk in the countryside.
Ezekiel 4:16-17
Then he said to me, "Son of man, I am about to remove the bread supply in Jerusalem. They will eat their bread ration anxiously, and they will drink their water ration in terror
Ezekiel 23:33
You will be overcome by drunkenness and sorrow. The cup of your sister Samaria is a cup of horror and desolation.