Parallel Verses
King James Version
Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with carefulness;
New American Standard Bible
“Son of man,
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;
Amplified
“Son of man, eat your bread with anxiety, and drink your water with trembling and with fear.
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
Lechem
Mayim
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 thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with carefulness; 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.
Phrases
Cross References
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.
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.
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:
Job 3:24
For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
Psalm 60:2-3
Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh.
Psalm 80:5
Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.
Psalm 102:4-9
My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
Lamentations 5:9
We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
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:
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.