Judgment · Historical judgment oracle

Ezekiel 12:17-20

Ezekiel · ~592 BC · Status: Fulfilled · Confidence: 65%
“… Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with carefulness; And say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord GOD of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel; They shall eat their bread with carefulness, and drink their water with astonishment, that her land may be desolate from all that is therein, because of the violence of all them that dwell therein.”
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Ezekiel demonstrating with his eating and drinking the terror Jerusalem would experience under siege.

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12:17Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

12:18Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with carefulness;

12:19And say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord GOD of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel; They shall eat their bread with carefulness, and drink their water with astonishment, that her land may be desolate from all that is therein, because of the violence of all them that dwell therein.

12:20And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be desolate; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

Fulfillment References

Lamentations 4:4 Lamentations 2:12 Jeremiah 52:6

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