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, the widow woman was there gathering of 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 dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.

Therefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might be a possession unto the residue of the heathen, and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers, and are an infamy of the people:

Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,

For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end.

For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.

Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah desolate, and a den of dragons.

To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.

Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and he shall take it:

Thus saith the LORD; Again there shall be heard in this place, which ye say shall be desolate without man and without beast, even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man, and without inhabitant, and without beast,

Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.

But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they knew not. Thus the land was desolate after them, that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land desolate.

All that is therein

{A Psalm of David.} The earth is the LORD'S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.

For the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof.

Because

Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.

The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually is grief and wounds.

They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

General references

We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.