Ezekiel 4:12 Parallel Translations

Eat the bread as you would eat barley loaves. Bake the bread in front of people, using human excrement for fuel."(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight.

ASV:

And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it in their sight with dung that cometh out of man.

BBE:

And let your food be barley cakes, cooking it before their eyes with the waste which comes out of a man.

DBY:

And thou shalt eat it as barley-cake, and thou shalt bake it in their sight with dung that cometh out of man.

ERV:

And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it in their sight with dung that cometh out of man.

JPS:

And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it in their sight with dung that cometh out of man.'

WBS:

And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with human excrement in their sight.

WEB:

You shall eat it as barley cakes, and you shall bake it in their sight with dung that comes out of man.

YLT:

A barley-cake thou dost eat it, and it with dung -- the filth of man -- thou dost bake before their eyes.

Ezekiel 4:12 Cross References

XREF:

Isaiah 36:12 But Rabshakeh said, "Has my master sent me only to your master and to you to speak these words, and not to the men who sit on the wall, doomed to eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you?" (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

4:12 And thou shalt eat it [as] barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it {k} with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight.
(k) Signifying by this the great scarcity of fuel and matter to burn.

WES:

4:12 As barley cakes - Because they never had enough to make a loaf with, they eat them as barley cakes. With dung - There was no wood left, nor yet dung of other creatures. This also was represented in a vision.

MHC:

4:9-17 The bread which was Ezekiel's support, was to be made of coarse grain and pulse mixed together, seldom used except in times of urgent scarcity, and of this he was only to take a small quantity. Thus was figured the extremity to which the Jews were to be reduced during the siege and captivity. Ezekiel does not plead, Lord, from my youth I have been brought up delicately, and never used to any thing like this; but that he had been brought up conscientiously, and never had eaten any thing forbidden by the law. It will be comfortable when we are brought to suffer hardships, if our hearts can witness that we have always been careful to keep even from the appearance of evil. See what woful work sin makes, and acknowledge the righteousness of God herein. Their plenty having been abused to luxury and excess, they were justly punished by famine. When men serve not God with cheerfulness in the abundance of all things, God will make them serve their enemies in the want of all things.

CONC:

Bake Baked Baking Barley Barley-cake Cake Cakes Cooking Dung Eat Excrement Filth Fuel Human Sight Using Waste

Bake Baked Baking Barley Cake Cakes Cooking Dung Eat Excrement Eyes Filth Food Fuel Human Sight Using

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