Ezekiel 4:16

WEB

¹⁶Moreover 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;

KJV

¹⁶Moreover 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:

BSB

¹⁶Then 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.

FBV

¹⁶Then he went on, “Son of man, watch! I am going to put a stop to Jerusalem's food supply. Worried sick, they will eat bread rationed by weight. Despairing at what's happening, they will drink water measured in small amounts.

Extra References

Ezekiel 5:16

¹⁶when I send on them the evil arrows of famine that are for destruction, which I will send to destroy you. I will increase the famine on you and will break your staff of bread.

Isaiah 3:1

¹For, behold, ^[+] the Lord, GOD ^[+] of Armies, takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah supply and support, the whole supply of bread, and the whole supply of water;

Leviticus 26:26

²⁶When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight. You shall eat, and not be satisfied.

Ezekiel 12:18-19

¹⁸“Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink your water with trembling and with fearfulness. ¹⁹Tell the people of the land, ‘The Lord GOD says concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the land of Israel: “They will eat their bread with fearfulness and drink their water in dismay, that her land may be desolate, and all that is therein, because of the violence of all those who dwell therein.

Psalms 105:16

¹⁶He called for a famine on the land. He destroyed the food supplies.

Ezekiel 4:10-11

¹⁰Your food which you shall eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels^[+] a day. From time to time you shall eat it. ¹¹You shall drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin.^[+] From time to time you shall drink.

Ezekiel 14:13

¹³“Son of man, when a land sins against me by committing a trespass, and I stretch out my hand on it, and break the staff of its bread and send famine on it, and cut off from it man and animal—

Lamentations 4:9-10

⁹Those who are killed with the sword are better than those who are killed with hunger; for these pine away, stricken through, for lack of the fruits of the field. ¹⁰The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children. They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Lamentations 5:9

⁹We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.

Psalms 60:3

³You have shown your people hard things. You have made us drink the wine that makes us stagger.