that they may lack bread and water, be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.
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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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That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.
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that they may want bread and water, and be appalled one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.
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Passages linked to Ezekiel 4:17 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Leviticus 26:39 Those of you who are left will pine away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers they shall pine away with them.
- Ezekiel 24:23 Your turbans will be on your heads, and your sandals on your feet. You won’t mourn or weep; but you will pine away in your iniquities, and moan one toward another.
- Ezekiel 33:10 “You, son of man, tell the house of Israel: ‘You say this, “Our transgressions and our sins are on us, and we pine away in them. How then can we live?” ’
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Eze 4:17 That they may want bread and water,…
Eze 4:17 That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.
Ver. 17. And be astonied.] At their straits and disappointments.
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And consume away for their iniquity.] They. shall "pine away in their iniquity"; {Lev 26:31} this is the last and worst of judgments there threatened, after those other dismal ones.
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain The Lord will take away their provision, that they…
The Lord will take away their provision, that they may die with want, punished for all their sins, and disappointed of all that their false prophets promised them; and under strangest disappointments, be filled with strangest amazements and horrors, at the woeful miseries of one another, and falling dead in each other’s helpless sight.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain That they may want bread and water,.... Or, "because…
That they may want bread and water,.... Or, "because they shall want" (l) &c. therefore they shall eat the one, and drink the other, by weight; or they shall do this till there shall be none to eat and drink:
and be astonished one with another; when they shall find they cannot relieve one another; and not knowing what method to take for the support of nature:
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and consume away for their iniquity; their flesh upon them black through famine, putrid and noisome; and they wasting, pining, and consuming; reduced to skin and bones; and disagreeable to look upon; and all because of their sins and iniquities.
(l) "eo quod", Munster, Vatablus; "propterea", Tigurine version.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain May want - So because they served not God…
May want - So because they served not God with chearfulness in the abundance of all things, He made them serve their enemies in the want of all things.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain When. Protestants, "they may want bread and water, and…
When. Protestants, "they may want bread and water, and be astonished one with another, and consume away for their iniquity." (Haydock)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain astonied one with another--mutually regard one another with astonishment:…
astonied one with another--mutually regard one another with astonishment: the stupefied look of despairing want.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Consume away for their iniquity, etc. Another echo from…
Consume away for their iniquity, etc. Another echo from the book which had entered so largely into the prophet"s education. (see Lev_26:39, where the Hebrew for "pine" is the same as that here rendered "consume To the wretchedness of physical privation there was to be added the consciousness of the sufferers that it was caused by their own evil deeds.
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