Ezekiel 4:11
Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.
Ezekiel 4:11 in other translations
| BSB | You are also to measure out a sixth of a hin of water to drink, and you are to drink it at set times. |
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| WEB | You shall drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin. From time to time you shall drink. |
| ASV | And thou shalt drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time to time shalt thou drink. |
| YLT | ‘And water by measure thou dost drink, a sixth part of the hin; from time to time thou dost drink it. |
| DARBY | And thou shalt drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time to time shalt thou drink. |
| BBE | And you are to take water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: you are to take it at regular times. |
| Webster | Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time to time shalt thou drink. |
What does Ezekiel 4:11 mean?
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Ezekiel 4:9-17
The bread which was Ezekiel's support, was to be made of coarse grain and pulse mixed together, seldom used except in times of urgent scarcity, and of this he was only to take a small quantity. Thus was figured the extremity to which the Jews were to be reduced during the siege and captivity. Ezekiel does not plead, Lord, from my youth I have been brought up delicately, and never used to any thing like this; but…
Ezekiel 4:11 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Ezekiel 4:11
- John 3:34
For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him.
- Ezekiel 4:16
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:
- Isaiah 5:13
Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.
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Context
- Ezekiel 4:10
And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it.
- Ezekiel 4:11
Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.
- Ezekiel 4:12
And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight.
Ezekiel 4:11 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y beberás el agua por medida, la sexta parte de un hin: de tiempo á tiempo beberás. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et l’eau, tu la boiras à la mesure, un sixième de hin; tu la boiras de temps en temps. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und Wasser sollst du nach dem Maße trinken: ein sechstel Hin; von Zeit zu Zeit sollst du trinken. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Et aquam in mensura bibes, sextam partem hin: a tempore usque ad tempus bibes illud. |