Moreover he said to me, “Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem. They will eat bread by weight, and with fearfulness. They will drink water by measure, and in dismay;
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Ezekiel 4:16 in context
Ezekiel 4:13–17
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The LORD said, “Even thus will the children of Israel eat their bread unclean, among the nations where I will drive them.”
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Then I said, “Ah Lord GOD! Behold, my soul has not been polluted; for from my youth up even until now I have not eaten of that which dies of itself, or is torn of animals. No abominable meat has come into my mouth!”
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Then he said to me, “Behold, I have given you cow’s dung for man’s dung, and you shall prepare your bread on it.”
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Moreover he said to me, “Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem. They will eat bread by weight, and with fearfulness. They will drink water by measure, and in dismay;
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that they may lack bread and water, be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.
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