Ezekiel Chapter 12 verse 18 Holy Bible
Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with fearfulness;
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Son of man, take your food with shaking fear, and your water with trouble and care;
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Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with anxiety;
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Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with carefulness;
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Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink your water with trembling and with fearfulness;
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`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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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 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.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(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.
