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href="/esv/ezekiel/4.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>ESV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/nasb/ezekiel/4.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NASB</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/kjv/ezekiel/4.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>KJV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/hcsb/ezekiel/4.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>HCSB</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="btext1">"Now, son of man, take a block of clay, put it in front of you and draw the city of Jerusalem on it.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="btext2">“And you, son of man, take a brick and lay it before you, and engrave on it a city, even Jerusalem.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="btext3">"Now you son of man, get yourself a brick, place it before you and inscribe a city on it, Jerusalem.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="btext4">Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and pourtray upon it the city, <i>even</i> Jerusalem:</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="btext5">Now you, son of man, take a brick, set it in front of you, and draw the city of Jerusalem on it. </span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Then lay siege to it: Erect siege works against it, build a ramp up to it, set up camps against it and put battering rams around it.</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And put siegeworks against it, and build a siege wall against it, and cast up a mound against it. Set camps also against it, and plant battering rams against it all around.</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext3">"Then lay siege against it, build a siege wall, raise up a ramp, pitch camps and place battering rams against it all around.</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext4">And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set <i>battering</i> rams against it round about.</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext5">Then lay siege against it: construct a siege wall, build a ramp, pitch military camps, and place battering rams against it on all sides. </span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Then take an iron pan, place it as an iron wall between you and the city and turn your face toward it. It will be under siege, and you shall besiege it. This will be a sign to the people of Israel.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And you, take an iron griddle, and place it as an iron wall between you and the city; and set your face toward it, and let it be in a state of siege, and press the siege against it. This is a sign for the house of Israel.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext3">"Then get yourself an iron plate and set it up as an iron wall between you and the city, and set your face toward it so that it is under siege, and besiege it. This is a sign to the house of Israel.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext4">Moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it <i>for</i> a wall of iron between thee and the city: and set thy face against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This <i>shall be</i> a sign to the house of Israel.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext5">Take an iron plate and set it up as an iron wall between yourself and the city. Turn your face toward it so that it is under siege, and besiege it. This will be a sign for the house of Israel." </span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext1">"Then lie on your left side and put the sin of the people of Israel upon yourself. You are to bear their sin for the number of days you lie on your side.</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext2">“Then lie on your left side, and place the punishment of the house of Israel upon it. For the number of the days that you lie on it, you shall bear their punishment.</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext3">"As for you, lie down on your left side and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel on it; you shall bear their iniquity for the number of days that you lie on it.</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext4">Lie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it: <i>according</i> to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their iniquity.</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext5">Then lie down on your left side and place the iniquity of the house of Israel on it. You will bear their iniquity for the number of days you lie on your side.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/niv/ezekiel/4.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NIV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/esv/ezekiel/4.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>ESV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/nasb/ezekiel/4.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NASB</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/kjv/ezekiel/4.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>KJV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/hcsb/ezekiel/4.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>HCSB</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext1">I have assigned you the same number of days as the years of their sin. So for 390 days you will bear the sin of the people of Israel.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For I assign to you a number of days, 390 days, equal to the number of the years of their punishment. So long shall you bear the punishment of the house of Israel.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext3">"For I have assigned you a number of days corresponding to the years of their iniquity, three hundred and ninety days; thus you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext4">For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext5">For I have assigned you the years of their iniquity according to the number of days you lie down, 390 days; so you will bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext1">"After you have finished this, lie down again, this time on your right side, and bear the sin of the people of Judah. I have assigned you 40 days, a day for each year.</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And when you have completed these, you shall lie down a second time, but on your right side, and bear the punishment of the house of Judah. Forty days I assign you, a day for each year.</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext3">"When you have completed these, you shall lie down a second time, but on your right side and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah; I have assigned it to you for forty days, a day for each year.</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext4">And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year.</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext5">When you have completed these days, lie down again, but on your right side, and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah. I have assigned you 40 days, a day for each year. </span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Turn your face toward the siege of Jerusalem and with bared arm prophesy against her.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And you shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, with your arm bared, and you shall prophesy against the city.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext3">"Then you shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem with your arm bared and prophesy against it.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext4">Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and thine arm <i>shall be</i> uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against it.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext5">You must turn your face toward the siege of Jerusalem with your arm bared, and prophesy against it. </span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext1">I will tie you up with ropes so that you cannot turn from one side to the other until you have finished the days of your siege.</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And behold, I will place cords upon you, so that you cannot turn from one side to the other, till you have completed the days of your siege.</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext3">"Now behold, I will put ropes on you so that you cannot turn from one side to the other until you have completed the days of your siege.</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext4">And, behold, I will lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn thee from one side to another, till thou hast ended the days of thy siege.</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext5">Be aware that I will put cords on you so you cannot turn from side to side until you have finished the days of your siege." </span></td></tr></table> <p class="hdg">The Defiled Bread</p><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/niv/ezekiel/4.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NIV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/esv/ezekiel/4.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>ESV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/nasb/ezekiel/4.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NASB</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/kjv/ezekiel/4.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>KJV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/hcsb/ezekiel/4.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>HCSB</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext1">"Take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and spelt; put them in a storage jar and use them to make bread for yourself. You are to eat it during the 390 days you lie on your side.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext2">“And you, take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and emmer, and put them into a single vessel and make your bread from them. During the number of days that you lie on your side, 390 days, you shall eat it.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext3">"But as for you, take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet and spelt, put them in one vessel and make them into bread for yourself; you shall eat it according to the number of the days that you lie on your side, three hundred and ninety days.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext4">Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, <i>according</i> to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext5">Also take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt. Put them in a single container and make them into bread for yourself. You are to eat it during the number of days you lie on your side, 390 days. </span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Weigh out twenty shekels of food to eat each day and eat it at set times.</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And your food that you eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day; from day to day you shall eat it.</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext3">"Your food which you eat shall be twenty shekels a day by weight; you shall eat it from time to time.</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext4">And thy meat which thou shalt eat <i>shall be</i> by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it.</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext5">The food you eat each day will be eight ounces by weight; you will eat it from time to time.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Also measure out a sixth of a hin of water and drink it at set times.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And water you shall drink by measure, the sixth part of a hin; from day to day you shall drink.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext3">"The water you drink shall be the sixth part of a hin by measure; you shall drink it from time to time.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext4">Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext5">You are also to drink water by measure, a sixth of a gallon, which you will drink from time to time. </span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Eat the food as you would a loaf of barley bread; bake it in the sight of the people, using human excrement for fuel."</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And you shall eat it as a barley cake, baking it in their sight on human dung.”</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext3">"You shall eat it as a barley cake, having baked it in their sight over human dung."</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext4">And thou shalt eat it <i>as</i> barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight.</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext5">You will eat it as you would a barley cake and bake it over dried human excrement in their sight." </span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/niv/ezekiel/4.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NIV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/esv/ezekiel/4.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>ESV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/nasb/ezekiel/4.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NASB</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/kjv/ezekiel/4.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>KJV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/hcsb/ezekiel/4.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>HCSB</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext1">The LORD said, "In this way the people of Israel will eat defiled food among the nations where I will drive them."</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And the LORD said, “Thus shall the people of Israel eat their bread unclean, among the nations where I will drive them.”</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext3">Then the LORD said, "Thus will the sons of Israel eat their bread unclean among the nations where I will banish them."</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext4">And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext5">The LORD said, "This is how the Israelites will eat their bread--ceremonially unclean--among the nations where I will banish them." </span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Then I said, "Not so, Sovereign LORD! I have never defiled myself. From my youth until now I have never eaten anything found dead or torn by wild animals. No impure meat has ever entered my mouth."</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Then I said, “Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, I have never defiled myself. From my youth up till now I have never eaten what died of itself or was torn by beasts, nor has tainted meat come into my mouth.”</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext3">But I said, "Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, I have never been defiled; for from my youth until now I have never eaten what died of itself or was torn by beasts, nor has any unclean meat ever entered my mouth."</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext4">Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul hath not been polluted: for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext5">But I said, "Oh, Lord GOD, I have never been defiled. From my youth until now I have not eaten anything that died naturally or was mauled by wild beasts. And impure meat has never entered my mouth." </span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext1">"Very well," he said, "I will let you bake your bread over cow dung instead of human excrement."</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Then he said to me, “See, I assign to you cow’s dung instead of human dung, on which you may prepare your bread.”</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext3">Then He said to me, "See, I will give you cow's dung in place of human dung over which you will prepare your bread."</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext4">Then he said unto me, Lo, I have given thee cow's dung for man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext5">He replied to me, "Look, I will let you use cow dung instead of human excrement, and you can make your bread over that."</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext1">He then said to me: "Son of man, I am about to cut off the food supply in Jerusalem. The people will eat rationed food in anxiety and drink rationed water in despair,</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Moreover, he said to me, “Son of man, behold, I will break the supply of bread in Jerusalem. They shall eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and they shall drink water by measure and in dismay.</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext3">Moreover, He said to me, "Son of man, behold, I am going to break the staff of bread in Jerusalem, and they will eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and drink water by measure and in horror,</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext4">Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment:</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext5">Then He said to me, "Son of man, I am going to cut off the supply of bread in Jerusalem. They will anxiously eat bread rationed by weight and in dread drink water by measure.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext1">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.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext2">I will do this that they may lack bread and water, and look at one another in dismay, and rot away because of their punishment.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext3">because bread and water will be scarce; and they will be appalled with one another and waste away in their iniquity.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext4">That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext5">So they will lack bread and water; everyone will be devastated and waste away because of their iniquity." </span></td></tr></table><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><br /><br /><br />THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com" target="_top">Biblica®</a>.<br /><br />ESV® Text Edition® (2016): The Holy Bible, English Standard Version® copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv" target="_top">Crossway Bibles</a>.<br /><br />New American Standard Bible Copyright © 1960 - 1995 by <a href="http://www.lockman.org" target="_top">The Lockman Foundation</a>.<br /><br />Holman Christian Standard Bible®, Copyright © 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2009 by <a href="http://www.bhpublishinggroup.com/" target="_top">Holman Bible Publishers</a>.<br /><br />King James Bible Text courtesy of <a href="http://www.bibleprotector.com/"> BibleProtector.com</a><br /><br />Section Headings Courtesy <a href="http://intbible.com/">INT Bible</a> © 2012, Used by Permission.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../ezekiel/3.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Ezekiel 3"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Ezekiel 3" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../ezekiel/5.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Ezekiel 5"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Ezekiel 5" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchap.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>