Ezekiel 4:9

4:9 “As for you, take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt,¹ put them in a single container, and make food² from them for yourself. For the same number of days that you lie on your side – 390 days³ – you will eat it.

Ezekiel 29:5

29:5 I will leave you in the wilderness,

you and all the fish of your waterways;

you will fall in the open field and will not be gathered up or collected.⁴

I have given you as food to the beasts of the earth and the birds of the skies.

Ezekiel 33:27

33:27 “This is what you must say to them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: As surely as I live, those living in the ruins will die⁵ by the sword, those in the open field I will give to the wild beasts for food, and those who are in the strongholds and caves will die of disease.

Ezekiel 34:8

34:8 As surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, my sheep have become prey and have become food for all the wild beasts. There was no shepherd, and my shepherds did not search for my flock, but fed themselves and did not feed my sheep,

Ezekiel 34:10

34:10 This is what the sovereign Lord says: Look, I am against the shepherds, and I will demand my sheep from their hand. I will no longer let them be shepherds;⁶ the shepherds will not feed themselves anymore. I will rescue my sheep from their mouth, so that they will no longer be food for them.

Ezekiel 48:18

48:18 The remainder of the length alongside the holy allotment will be three and one-third miles⁷ to the east and three and one-third miles toward the west, and it will be beside the holy allotment. Its produce will be for food for the workers of the city.

¹sn Wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt. All these foods were common in Mesopotamia where Ezekiel was exiled.

²tn Heb “bread.”

³tc The LXX reads “190 days.”

⁴tc Some Hebrew mss, the Targum, and the LXX read “buried.”

⁵tn Heb “fall.”

⁶tn Heb “I will cause them to cease from feeding sheep.”

⁷tn Heb “ten thousand cubits” (i.e., 5.25 kilometers); the phrase occurs again later in this verse.