Parallel Verses
NET Bible
because they will lack bread and water. Each one will be terrified, and they will rot for their iniquity.
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."
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 Then he said to me, "Son of man, I am about to remove the bread supply in Jerusalem. They will eat their bread ration anxiously, and they will drink their water ration in terror 17 because they will lack bread and water. Each one will be terrified, and they will rot for their iniquity.
Phrases
Cross References
Leviticus 26:39
"'As for the ones who remain among you, they will rot away because of their iniquity in the lands of your enemies, and they will also rot away because of their ancestors' iniquities which are with them.
Ezekiel 24:23
Your turbans will be on your heads and your sandals on your feet; you will not mourn or weep, but you will rot for your iniquities and groan among yourselves.
Ezekiel 33:10
"And you, son of man, say to the house of Israel, 'This is what you have said: "Our rebellious acts and our sins have caught up with us, and we are wasting away because of them. How then can we live?"'