Text -- Ezekiel 4:17 (NET)

4:17 because they will lack bread and water. Each one will be terrified, and they will rot for their iniquity.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Eze 4:17

¹ tn Or “in their punishment.” Ezek 4:16-17 alludes to Lev 26:26, 39. The phrase “in/for [a person’s] iniquity” occurs fourteen times in Ezekiel: here, 3:18, 19; 7:13, 16; 18: 17, 18, 19, 20; 24:23; 33:6, 8, 9; 39:23. The Hebrew word for “iniquity” may also mean the “punishment for iniquity.”