Ezekiel 4:16

Ezekiel's Strange Defiled Meal

¹⁵ Then He said to me, “See, I will let you use cow’s dung instead of human dung over which you shall prepare your food.” ¹⁶ Moreover, He said to me, “Son of man, behold (listen carefully), I am going to break the staff of bread [that supports life] in Jerusalem; and they shall eat bread [rationed] by weight and [eat it] with anxiety and fear, and drink water by measure and [drink it] in horror [of the impending starvation], ¹⁷ because bread and water will be scarce; and they will look at one another in dismay and waste away [in punishment] for their wickedness.

Son of Man

Jerusalem

Leviticus 26:26

When I break your staff of bread [that is, cut off your supply of food], ten women will bake your bread in one oven, and they will ration your bread; and you will eat and not be satisfied.

Ezekiel 5:16

When I send against them the deadly arrows of hunger which were for the destruction of those whom I will send to destroy you, then I will increase the famine upon you and break your staff of bread.

Isaiah 3:1

Listen carefully, the Lord God of hosts is removing from Jerusalem and from Judah
Both supply and support, the whole supply of bread
And the whole supply of water;

Ezekiel 4:10-11

The food you eat each day shall be [measured] by weight, twenty shekels, to be eaten daily at a set time.

Ezekiel 14:13

“Son of man, if a land sins against Me by committing unfaithfulness, and I stretch out My hand against it and destroy its source of bread and send famine on it and cut off from it both man and animal,

Psalm 105:16

And He called for a famine upon the land [of Egypt];
He cut off every source of bread.

Ezekiel 12:18-19

“Son of man, eat your bread with anxiety, and drink your water with trembling and with fear.

Psalm 60:3

You have made Your people experience hardship;
You have given us wine to drink that makes us stagger and fall.

Lamentations 1:11

All her people groan, seeking bread;
They have exchanged their desirable and precious things for food
To restore their lives.
“See, O Lord, and consider
How despised and repulsive I have become!”

Lamentations 4:9-10

Those killed with the sword
Are more fortunate than those killed with hunger;
For the hungry pine and ebb away,
For the lack of the fruits of the field.

Lamentations 5:9

We get our bread at the risk of our lives
Because of the sword [of the Arabs] in the wilderness [who may attack if we go out to harvest the crop].