Ezekiel 12:18
Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with carefulness;
Ezekiel 12:18 in other translations
| BSB | “Son of man, eat your bread with trembling, and drink your water with quivering and anxiety. |
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| WEB | “Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink your water with trembling and with fearfulness. |
| ASV | Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with fearfulness; |
| YLT | ‘Son of man, thy bread in haste thou dost eat, and thy water with trembling and with fear thou dost drink; |
| DARBY | Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with anxiety; |
| BBE | Son of man, take your food with shaking fear, and your water with trouble and care; |
| Webster | Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with solicitude. |
What does Ezekiel 12:18 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Ezekiel 12:17-20
The prophet must eat and drink in care and fear, with trembling, that he might express the condition of those in Jerusalem during the siege. When ministers speak of the ruin coming upon sinners, they must speak as those that know the terrors of the Lord. Afflictions are happy ones, however grievous to flesh and blood, that improve us in the knowledge of God.
Ezekiel 12:18 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Ezekiel 12:18
- Lamentations 5:9
We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
- Leviticus 26:26
And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.
- Job 3:24
For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
- Psalms 60:2-3
Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh. Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.
- Psalms 102:4-9
My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread. By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin. I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert. I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top. …
- Ezekiel 4:16-17
Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment: That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.
- Deuteronomy 28:65
And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the Lord shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind:
- Psalms 80:5
Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.
- Leviticus 26:36
And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth.
- Deuteronomy 28:48
Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the Lord shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.
- Ezekiel 23:33
Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.
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Context
- Ezekiel 12:17
Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
- Ezekiel 12:18
Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with carefulness;
- Ezekiel 12:19
And say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord God of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel; They shall eat their bread with carefulness, and drink their water with astonishment, that her land may be desolate from all that is therein, because of the violence of all them that dwell therein.
Ezekiel 12:18 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Hijo del hombre, come tu pan con temblor, y bebe tu agua con estremecimiento y con anhelo; |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Fils d’homme, mange ton pain dans le trouble, et bois ton eau avec tremblement et dans l’inquiétude; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Menschensohn, mit Beben sollst du dein Brot essen, und mit Zittern und in Angst dein Wasser trinken. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Fili hominis, panem tuum in conturbatione comede, sed et aquam tuam in festinatione et mœrore bibe. |