Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
So that they may be in need of bread and water and be wondering at one another, wasting away in their sin.
New American Standard Bible
because bread and water will be scarce; and they will be appalled with one another and
King James Version
That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.
Holman Bible
So they will lack bread and water; everyone will be devastated and waste away because of their iniquity.
International Standard Version
Indeed, they'll need bread and water, but everyone will be panic-stricken as they waste away in their iniquity."
A Conservative Version
that they may lack bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.
American Standard Version
that they may want bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.
Amplified
because bread and water will be scarce; and they will look at one another in dismay and waste away [in punishment] for their wickedness.
Darby Translation
because bread and water shall fail them, and they shall be astonied one with another, and waste away in their iniquity.
Julia Smith Translation
So that they shall want bread and water, and they were astonished, a man and his brother, and they were melted in their iniquity.
King James 2000
That they may lack bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and waste away for their iniquity.
Lexham Expanded Bible
so that they will lack food and water, and they will be appalled {with one another}, and they will waste away because of their guilt.
Modern King James verseion
so that they may lack bread and water, and be stricken dumb with one another, and waste away in their iniquity.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And when they have no more bread nor water, one shall be destroyed with another, and famish away for their wickedness."
NET Bible
because they will lack bread and water. Each one will be terrified, and they will rot for their iniquity.
New Heart English Bible
that they may want bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.
The Emphasized Bible
that they may lack bread and water and be astonished one with another, and pine away in their punishment.
Webster
That they may want bread and water, and be astonished one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.
World English Bible
that they may want bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.
Youngs Literal Translation
so that they lack bread and water, and have been astonished one with another, and been consumed in their iniquity.
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Ezekiel 4:17
Verse Info
Context Readings
Ezekiel's Strange Defiled Meal
16 And he said to me, Son of man, see, I will take away from Jerusalem her necessary bread: they will take their bread by weight and with care, measuring out their drinking-water with fear and wonder: 17 So that they may be in need of bread and water and be wondering at one another, wasting away in their sin.
Phrases
Cross References
Leviticus 26:39
And those of you who are still living will be wasting away in their sins in the land of your haters; in the sins of their fathers they will be wasting away.
Ezekiel 24:23
And your head-dresses will be on your heads and your shoes on your feet: there will be no sorrow or weeping; but you will be wasting away in the punishment of your evil-doing, and you will be looking at one another in wonder.
Ezekiel 33:10
And you, son of man, say to the children of Israel, You say, Our wrongdoing and our sins are on us and we are wasting away in them; how then may we have life?