Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
that they may lack bread and water and be astonished one with another, and pine away in their punishment.
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.
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.
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.
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 unto me, Son of man Behold me! breaking the staff of bread in Jerusalem, So shall they eat bread by weight and with anxious care, And water by measure, and in astonishment, shall they drink: 17 that they may lack bread and water and be astonished one with another, and pine away in their punishment.
Phrases
Cross References
Leviticus 26:39
And they who are left of you, shall melt away in their iniquity, in the lands of your foes; Yea also, in the iniquity of their fathers with them, shall they melt away.
Ezekiel 24:23
And your chaplets shall be on your heads. And your sandals on your feet, Ye shall neither lament, nor weep,- Yet shall ye pine away in your iniquities, and shall groan one to another.
Ezekiel 33:10
Thou, therefore, Son of man, Say unto the house of Israel, Thus, have ye spoken saying: When our transgressions and our sins are upon us, - and for them, we are melting away How then can we live?