Ezekiel 12:19

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord GOD of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel; They shall eat their bread with carefulness, and drink their water with astonishment, that her land may be desolate from all that is therein, because of the violence of all them that dwell therein.

With carefulness

1 Kings 17:10

That her

All that is therein

Psalm 24:1

1 Corinthians 10:26

Because

Micah 3:10

General references

Lamentations 5:9

Bible References

With carefulness

So he arose and went to Zarephath, and when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks; and he called to her and said, “Please get me a little water in a jar, that I may drink.”

That her

In all your dwellings, cities will become waste and the high places will be desolate, that your altars may become waste and desolate, your idols may be broken and brought to an end, your incense altars may be cut down, and your works may be blotted out.

therefore prophesy and say, ‘Thus says the Lord God, “For good reason they have made you desolate and crushed you from every side, that you would become a possession of the rest of the nations and you have been taken up in the

talk and the whispering of the people.”’”

Then I said, “Lord, how long?” And He answered,
“Until cities are devastated and without inhabitant,
Houses are without people
And the land is utterly desolate,

For thus says the Lord,
“The whole land shall be a desolation,
Yet I will not execute a complete destruction.

“For the mountains I will take up a weeping and wailing,
And for the pastures of the wilderness a dirge,
Because they are laid waste so that no one passes through,
And the lowing of the cattle is not heard;
Both the birds of the sky and the beasts have fled; they are gone.

The sound of a report! Behold, it comes—
A great commotion out of the land of the north—
To make the cities of Judah
A desolation, a haunt of jackals.

To make their land a desolation,
An object of perpetual hissing;
Everyone who passes by it will be astonished
And shake his head.

Therefore thus says the Lord, “Behold, I am about to give this city into the hand of the Chaldeans and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he will take it.

“Thus says the Lord, ‘Yet again there will be heard in this place, of which you say, “It is a waste, without man and without beast,” that is, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem that are desolate, without man and without inhabitant and without beast,

And the earth will become desolate because of her inhabitants,
On account of the fruit of their deeds.

“but I

scattered them with a storm wind among all the nations whom they have not known. Thus the land is desolated behind them so that no one went back and forth, for they made the pleasant land desolate.”

All that is therein

A Psalm of David.
The earth is the Lord’s, and all it contains,
The world, and those who dwell in it.

for the earth is the Lord’s, and

all it contains.

Because

‘Make the chain, for the land is full of

bloody crimes and the city is full of violence.

Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and the earth was filled with violence.

A fruitful land into a salt waste,
Because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it.

“As a well keeps its waters fresh,
So she keeps fresh her wickedness.

Violence and destruction are heard in her;

Sickness and wounds are ever before Me.

Who build Zion with bloodshed
And Jerusalem with violent injustice.

General references

We get our bread at the risk of our lives

Because of the sword in the wilderness.