12:17 The word of the Lord came to me: 12:18 “Son of man, eat your bread with trembling, 1 and drink your water with anxious shaking. 12:19 Then say to the people of the land, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says about the inhabitants of Jerusalem and of the land of Israel: They will eat their bread with anxiety and drink their water in fright, for their land will be stripped bare of all it contains because of the violence of all who live in it. 12:20 The inhabited towns will be left in ruins and the land will be devastated. Then you will know that I am the Lord.’”
1 tn The Hebrew term normally refers to an earthquake (see 1 Kgs 19:11; Amos 1:1).