Ezekiel 12:18
New International Version
“Son of man, tremble as you eat your food, and shudder in fear as you drink your water.

New Living Translation
“Son of man, tremble as you eat your food. Shake with fear as you drink your water.

English Standard Version
“Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink water with trembling and with anxiety.

Berean Standard Bible
“Son of man, eat your bread with trembling, and drink your water with quivering and anxiety.

King James Bible
Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with carefulness;

New King James Version
“Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink your water with trembling and anxiety.

New American Standard Bible
“Son of man, eat your bread with trembling, and drink your water with quivering and anxiety.

NASB 1995
“Son of man, eat your bread with trembling and drink your water with quivering and anxiety.

NASB 1977
“Son of man, eat your bread with trembling, and drink your water with quivering and anxiety.

Legacy Standard Bible
“Son of man, you shall eat your bread with trembling and drink your water with quivering and anxiety.

Amplified Bible
“Son of man, eat your bread with anxiety, and drink your water with trembling and with fear.

Christian Standard Bible
“Son of man, eat your bread with trembling and drink your water with anxious shaking.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Son of man, eat your bread with trembling and drink your water with shaking and anxiety.

American Standard Version
Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with fearfulness;

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
“Son of man, your bread you shall eat with trembling and you shall drink your water with trembling and with fear

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Son of man, eat thy bread with sorrow, and drink thy water with torment and affliction.

Contemporary English Version
Ezekiel, son of man, shake with fear when you eat, and tremble when you drink.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Son of man, eat thy bread in trouble: and drink thy water in hurry and sorrow.

English Revised Version
Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with carefulness;

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"Son of man, shake as you eat your food. Tremble and be worried as you drink your water.

Good News Translation
"Mortal man," he said, "tremble when you eat, and shake with fear when you drink.

International Standard Version
"Son of Man, eat your bread with trembling and drink your water with quivering and anxiety.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with anxiety;

Literal Standard Version
“Son of man, eat your bread in haste, and drink your water with trembling and with fear;

Majority Standard Bible
“Son of man, eat your bread with trembling, and drink your water with quivering and anxiety.

New American Bible
Son of man, eat your bread trembling and drink your water shaking with fear.

NET Bible
"Son of man, eat your bread with trembling, and drink your water with anxious shaking.

New Revised Standard Version
Mortal, eat your bread with quaking, and drink your water with trembling and with fearfulness;

New Heart English Bible
"Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink your water with trembling and with fearfulness;

Webster's Bible Translation
Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with solicitude.

World English Bible
“Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink your water with trembling and with fearfulness.

Young's Literal Translation
'Son of man, thy bread in haste thou dost eat, and thy water with trembling and with fear thou dost drink;

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Context
Signs of the Coming Captivity
17Moreover, the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 18“Son of man, eat your bread with trembling, and drink your water with quivering and anxiety. 19Then tell the people of the land that this is what the Lord GOD says about those living in Jerusalem and in the land of Israel: ‘They will eat their bread with anxiety and drink their water in dread, for their land will be stripped of everything in it because of the violence of all who dwell in it.…

Cross References
Lamentations 5:9
We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.

Ezekiel 4:16
Then He told me, "Son of man, I am going to cut off the supply of food in Jerusalem. They will anxiously eat bread rationed by weight, and in despair they will drink water by measure.

Ezekiel 12:17
Moreover, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

Daniel 10:7
Only I, Daniel, saw the vision; the men with me did not see it, but a great terror fell upon them, and they ran and hid themselves.


Treasury of Scripture

Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink your water with trembling and with carefulness;

Ezekiel 4:16,17
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: …

Ezekiel 23:33
Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.

Leviticus 26:26,36
And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied…

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Ezekiel 12
1. Under the type of Ezekiel's removing
8. is shown the captivity of Zedekiah
17. Ezekiel's trembling shows the Jews' desolation
21. The Jews' presumptuous proverb is reproved
26. The speediness of the vision














(18) Eat thy bread with quaking.--This is another symbolical action, the meaning of which is immediately explained. The prophet is to eat and drink as men in the terror and distress of a siege.

Verse 18. - Eat thy bread with quaking, etc. No special stress is to be laid on the fact that only bread and water are named. The prophet is not dwelling now on the scarcity of food in the besieged city, as he had done in Ezekiel 4:9-17, but on the fear and terror which should haunt the lives of the besieged. Here again we can scarcely doubt that, as in ver. 11, Ezekiel was a sign to those among whom he lived. Outwardly and visibly he was seen after his strange flitting, cowering in a corner, as one hunted down and dreading pursuit, with every look and gesture of extremest terror. This was to be the portion of those who escaped and whose life was "given them for a prey." The strange act was to be explained to "the people of the land," i.e. the exiles among whom Ezekiel lived. The short prediction ends with the usual formula. There is another interval, and then another inspiration.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
“Son
בֶּן־ (ben-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 1121: A son

of man,
אָדָ֕ם (’ā·ḏām)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 120: Ruddy, a human being

eat
תֹּאכֵ֑ל (tō·ḵêl)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 398: To eat

your bread
לַחְמְךָ֖ (laḥ·mə·ḵā)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 3899: Food, bread, grain

with trembling,
בְּרַ֣עַשׁ (bə·ra·‘aš)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7494: Vibration, bounding, uproar

and drink
תִּשְׁתֶּֽה׃ (tiš·teh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 8354: To imbibe

your water
וּמֵימֶ֕יךָ (ū·mê·me·ḵā)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 4325: Water, juice, urine, semen

with quivering
בְּרָגְזָ֥ה (bə·rā·ḡə·zāh)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 7269: A quivering, quaking

and anxiety.
וּבִדְאָגָ֖ה (ū·ḇiḏ·’ā·ḡāh)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 1674: Anxiety, anxious care


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