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 entrance of the city, lo! there, a widow woman gathering sticks, - and he called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.

That her

In all your dwelling-places, the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places, shall be made desolate, To the end your altar may be laid waste and become desolate. And your manufactured gods be broken in pieces and cease, And your sun-pillars be cut down, And your handiworks be abolished.

Therefore, prophesy, and thou shalt say, Thus saith My Lord Yahweh-Because even because they have desolated and panted for you on every side That ye should become a possession to the rest of the nations, And ye have come up into the talk of the tongue and the slander of the people

Then said I - How long, My Lord? And he said - Until the time that Cities be wasted through having no inhabitant And houses - through having no men, And, the ground, be laid waste unto desolation;

For, thus, saith Yahweh, A desolation, shall all the land become - Nevertheless a full end, will I not make.

Over the mountains, will I take up a weeping and wailing, And over the oases of the desert, a dirge, For they have been burned, so that no man passeth through, Neither have men heard the lowing of cattle, - Both the bird of the heavens and the beast have fled, have gone their way:

The noise of a rumour! lo it hath come! Even a great commotion out of the land of the North, - To make the cities of Judah, A desolation, A den of jackals.

To make their land a desolation The hissings of age-abiding times, - Every one that passeth by her, shall be astonished and wag his head.

Therefore, Thus, saith Yahweh, - Behold me! giving this city into the hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and he shall capture it;

Thus, saith Yahweh - Again, shall be heard in this place, as to which ye are saying, Deserted, it is without man or beast, In the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, Which are desolate without man or inhabitant or beast

Though the land become a desolation, because of them that dwell therein, - by reason of the fruit of their doings.

But I whirled them over all the nations whom they had not known, and, the land, was made desolate after them, that none passed through and returned, - Yea they made of a delightful land - a desolation.

All that is therein

To Yahweh, belongeth, The earth and the fulness thereof, The world, and they who dwell therein;

For, unto the Lord, belongeth the earth, and the fullness thereof.

Because

Prepare thou a chain, For the land is full of the crime of bloodshed, And the city is full of violence.

And the earth corrupted itself before God, - and the earth was filled with violence,

A Land of Fruit, into a waste of salt, For the wickedness of them who dwell therein.

Like the casting forth by a wall of its waters, So, hath she cast forth her wickedness, - Violence and destruction, are heard in her, Before my face, continually, are suffering and smiting.

Building Zion, with deeds of blood, - and Jerusalem, with perversity.

General references

At the risk of our life, do we bring in our bread, because of the sword of the desert.