Parallel Verses
Amplified
“Son of man, eat your bread with anxiety, and drink your water with trembling and with fear.
New American Standard Bible
“Son of man,
King James Version
Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with carefulness;
Holman Bible
“Son of man, eat your bread with
International Standard Version
"Son of Man, eat your bread with trembling and drink your water with quivering and anxiety.
A Conservative Version
Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with fearfulness.
American Standard Version
Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with fearfulness;
Bible in Basic English
Son of man, take your food with shaking fear, and your water with trouble and care;
Darby Translation
Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with anxiety;
Julia Smith Translation
Son of man, thou shalt eat thy bread with trembling, and thou shalt drink thy water with disquiet and with dread;
King James 2000
Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink your water with trembling and with anxiety;
Lexham Expanded Bible
"Son of man, you must eat your food with trembling, and your water with shuddering, and with anxiety you must drink.
Modern King James verseion
Son of man, eat your bread with quaking and drink your water with trembling and anxiety.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
"Thou son of man: with a fearful trembling shalt thou eat thy bread, with carefulness and sorrow shalt thou drink thy water.
NET Bible
"Son of man, eat your bread with trembling, and drink your water with anxious shaking.
New Heart English Bible
"Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink your water with trembling and with fearfulness;
The Emphasized Bible
Son of man, Thy bread, with trembling, shalt thou eat, - And thy water, in agitation and in fear, shalt thou drink.
Webster
Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with solicitude.
World English Bible
Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink your water with trembling and with fearfulness;
Youngs Literal Translation
'Son of man, thy bread in haste thou dost eat, and thy water with trembling and with fear thou dost drink;
Themes
Instruction » Eating and drinking sparingly
Interlinear
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References
Watsons
Word Count of 20 Translations in Ezekiel 12:18
Verse Info
Context Readings
Ezekiel Dramatizes Israel's Anxiety
17 Moreover, the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 18 “Son of man, eat your bread with anxiety, and drink your water with trembling and with fear. 19 Then say to the people of the land, ‘Thus says the Lord God concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem in the land of Israel, “They will eat their bread with anxiety and drink their water with horror, because their land will be stripped and looted of its fullness because of the violence of all those who live in it.
Phrases
Cross References
Leviticus 26:26
When I break your staff of bread [that is, cut off your supply of food], ten women will bake your bread in one oven, and they will ration your bread; and you will eat and not be satisfied.
Leviticus 26:36
As for those who are left of you, I will bring despair (lack of courage, weakness) into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; the sound of a scattered leaf will put them to flight, and they will flee as if [running] from the sword, and will fall even when no one is chasing them.
Deuteronomy 28:48
you will therefore serve your enemies whom the Lord sends against you, in hunger and in thirst, in nakedness and in lack of all things; and He will put an iron yoke [of slavery] on your neck until He has destroyed you.
Deuteronomy 28:65
Among those nations you will find no peace (rest), and there will be no resting place for the sole of your foot; but there the Lord will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and a despairing soul.
Job 3:24
“For my groaning comes at the sight of my food,
And my cries [of despair] are poured out like water.
Psalm 60:2-3
You have made the land quake, You have split it open;
Heal its rifts, for it shakes and totters.
Psalm 80:5
You have fed them the bread of tears,
And You have made them drink [bitter] tears in abundance.
Psalm 102:4-9
My heart has been struck like grass and withered,
Indeed, [absorbed by my heartache] I forget to eat my food.
Lamentations 5:9
We get our bread at the risk of our lives
Because of the sword [of the Arabs] in the wilderness [who may attack if we go out to harvest the crop].
Ezekiel 4:16-17
Moreover, He said to me, “Son of man, behold (listen carefully), I am going to break the staff of bread [that supports life] in Jerusalem; and they shall eat bread [rationed] by weight and [eat it] with anxiety and fear, and drink water by measure and [drink it] in horror [of the impending starvation],
Ezekiel 23:33
‘You shall be filled with drunkenness and sorrow,
With the cup of horror and desolation,
With the cup of your sister Samaria.