Ezekiel 12:17-20 - Ezekiel Dramatizes Israel's Anxiety

17 And the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 18 Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking and drink thy water with trembling and with anxiety 19 and say unto the people of the land, Thus hath the Lord GOD said regarding the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the land of Israel. They shall eat their bread with anxiety and drink their water with terror that her land may be desolate from all that is in it because of the violence of all those that dwell therein. 20 And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be desolate; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.