Ezekiel 4:17 - Compare All Versions
Ezekiel 4:17 NIV (New International Version)
for food and water will be scarce. They will be appalled at the sight of each other and will waste away because of their sin.
Ezekiel 4:17 ESV (English Standard Version 2025)
I will do this that they may lack bread and water, and look at one another in dismay, and rot away because of their punishment.
Ezekiel 4:17 NLT (New Living Translation)
Lacking food and water, people will look at one another in terror, and they will waste away under their punishment.
Ezekiel 4:17 CSB (Christian Standard Bible)
for lack of bread and water. Everyone will be devastated and waste away because of their iniquity.
Ezekiel 4:17 KJV (King James Version)
that they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.
Ezekiel 4:17 NKJV (New King James Version)
that they may lack bread and water, and be dismayed with one another, and waste away because of their iniquity.
Ezekiel 4:16-17 MSG (The Message)
Then he said to me, “Son of man, I’m going to cut off all food from Jerusalem. The people will live on starvation rations, worrying where the next meal’s coming from, scrounging for the next drink of water. Famine conditions. People will look at one another, see nothing but skin and bones, and shake their heads. This is what sin does.”
Ezekiel 4:17 NASB2020 (New American Standard Bible - NASB)
because bread and water will be scarce; and they will tremble with one another and waste away in their guilt.
Ezekiel 4:17 AMP (Amplified Bible)
because bread and water will be scarce; and they will look at one another in dismay and waste away [in punishment] for their wickedness.
Ezekiel 4:17 NET (New English Translation)
because they will lack bread and water. Each one will be terrified, and they will rot for their iniquity.