Ezekiel 12:18

Ezekiel Dramatizes Israel's Anxiety

¹⁷ Moreover, the word of the Lord came to me saying, ¹⁸ “Son of man, eat your bread with trembling and drink your water with quivering and anxiety. ¹⁹ Then say to the people of the land, ‘Thus says the Lord God concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem in the land of Israel, “They will eat their bread with anxiety and drink their water with horror, because their land will be stripped of its fullness on account of the violence of all who live in it.

Son of Man

Leviticus 26:26

When I break your staff of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven, and they will bring back your bread in rationed amounts, so that you will eat and not be satisfied.

Leviticus 26:36

As for those of you who may be left, I will also bring weakness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. And the sound of a driven leaf will chase them, and even when no one is pursuing they will flee as though from the sword, and they will fall.

Deuteronomy 28:48

therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in the lack of all things; and He will put an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.

Deuteronomy 28:65

Among those nations you shall find no rest, and there will be no resting place for the sole of your foot; but there the Lord will give you a trembling heart, failing of eyes, and despair of soul.

Job 3:24

“For my groaning comes at the sight of my food,
And my cries pour out like water.

Psalm 60:2-3

You have made the land quake, You have split it open;
Heal its breaches, for it totters.

Psalm 80:5

You have fed them with the bread of tears,
And You have made them to drink tears in large measure.

Psalm 102:4-9

My heart has been smitten like grass and has withered away,
Indeed, I forget to eat my bread.

Lamentations 5:9

We get our bread at the risk of our lives
Because of the sword in the wilderness.

Ezekiel 4:16-17

Moreover, He said to me, “Son of man, behold, I am going to break the staff of bread in Jerusalem, and they will eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and drink water by measure and in horror,

Ezekiel 23:33

‘You will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow,
The cup of horror and desolation,
The cup of your sister Samaria.