Ezekiel 4:16-17

4:16 Then he said to me, “Son of man, I am about to remove the bread supply ¹  in Jerusalem. ²  They will eat their bread ration anxiously, and they will drink their water ration in terror 4:17 because they will lack bread and water. Each one will be terrified, and they will rot for their iniquity. ³ 

Ezekiel 44:3

44:3 Only the prince may sit in it to eat a sacrificial meal ⁴  before the Lord; he will enter by way of the porch of the gate and will go out by the same way.”

Ezekiel 5:16

5:16 I will shoot against them deadly, ⁵  destructive ⁶  arrows of famine, ⁷  which I will shoot to destroy you. ⁸  I will prolong a famine on you and will remove the bread supply. ⁹ 

Ezekiel 13:19

13:19 You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and scraps of bread. You have put to death people ¹⁰  who should not die and kept alive those who should not live by your lies to my people, who listen to lies!

Ezekiel 14:13

14:13 “Son of man, suppose a country sins against me by being unfaithful, and I stretch out my hand against it, cut off its bread supply, ¹¹  cause famine to come on it, and kill both people and animals.

Ezekiel 16:49

16:49 “‘See here – this was the iniquity ¹²  of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters had majesty, abundance of food, and enjoyed carefree ease, but they did not help ¹³  the poor and needy.

¹ tn Heb, “break the staff of bread.” The bread supply is compared to a staff that one uses for support.

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³ 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.”

⁵ tn Heb “to eat bread.”

⁷ tn The Hebrew word carries the basic idea of “bad, displeasing, injurious,” but when used of weapons has the nuance “deadly” (see Ps 144:10).

⁸ tn Heb “which are/were to destroy.”

⁹ tn The language of this verse may have been influenced by Deut 32:23.

¹⁰ tn Or “which were to destroy those whom I will send to destroy you” (cf. NASB).

¹¹ tn Heb, “break the staff of bread.” The bread supply is compared to a staff that one uses for support. See 4:16, as well as the covenant curse in Lev 26:26.

⁹ tn Heb “human lives” or “souls.”

¹¹ tn Heb “break its staff of bread.”

¹³ tn Or “guilt.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “strengthen the hand of.”