Ezekiel 4:17
ContextNET © | because they will lack bread and water. Each one will be terrified, and they will rot for their iniquity. 1 |
NIV © | for food and water will be scarce. They will be appalled at the sight of each other and will waste away because of their sin. |
NASB © | because bread and water will be scarce; and they will be appalled with one another and waste away in their iniquity. |
NLT © | Food and water will be so scarce that the people will look at one another in terror, and they will waste away under their punishment. |
MSG © | Famine conditions. People will look at one another, see nothing but skin and bones, and shake their heads. This is what sin does." |
BBE © | So that they may be in need of bread and water and be wondering at one another, wasting away in their sin. |
NRSV © | Lacking bread and water, they will look at one another in dismay, and waste away under their punishment. |
NKJV © | "that they may lack bread and water, and be dismayed with one another, and waste away because of their iniquity. |
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NET © | because they will lack bread and water. Each one will be terrified, and they will rot for their iniquity. 1 |
NET © Notes |
1 tn Or “in their punishment.” Ezek 4:16-17 alludes to Lev 26:26, 39. The phrase “in/for [a person’s] iniquity” occurs fourteen times in Ezekiel: here, 3:18, 19; 7:13, 16; 18: 17, 18, 19, 20; 24:23; 33:6, 8, 9; 39:23. The Hebrew word for “iniquity” may also mean the “punishment for iniquity.” |