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Ezekiel 4:16 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" 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; "

Ezekiel 4:16

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14 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!”

15 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.”

16 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;

17 that they may lack bread and water, be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.

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Ezekiel 4:1

"“You also, son of man, take a tile, and lay it before yourself, and portray on it a city, even Jerusalem."

Ezekiel 4:2

"Lay siege against it, build forts against it, and cast up a mound against it. Also set camps against it and plant battering rams against it all around."

Ezekiel 4:3

"Take for yourself an iron pan and set it for a wall of iron between you and the city. Then set your face toward it. It will be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel."

Ezekiel 4:4

"“Moreover lie on your left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel on it. According to the number of the days that you shall lie on it, you shall bear their iniquity."

Ezekiel 4:5

"For I have appointed the years of their iniquity to be to you a number of days, even three hundred ninety days. So you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel."

Ezekiel 4:6

"“Again, when you have accomplished these, you shall lie on your right side, and shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah. I have appointed forty days, each day for a year, to you."

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