Then tell the people of the land that this is what the Lord GOD says about those living in Jerusalem and in the land of Israel: 'They will eat their bread with anxiety and drink their water in dread, for their land will be stripped of everything in it because of the violence of all who dwell in it. Cross References Jeremiah 10:22 Listen! The sound of a report is coming--a great commotion from the land to the north. The cities of Judah will be made a desolation, a haunt for jackals. Ezekiel 4:16 Then He told me, "Son of man, I am going to cut off the supply of food in Jerusalem. They will anxiously eat bread rationed by weight, and in despair they will drink water by measure. Ezekiel 6:6 Wherever you live, the cities will be laid waste and the high places will be demolished, so that your altars will be laid waste and desecrated, your idols smashed and obliterated, your incense altars cut down, and your works blotted out. Ezekiel 6:7 The slain will fall among you, and you will know that I am the LORD. Micah 7:13 Then the earth will become desolate because of its inhabitants, as the fruit of their deeds. Zechariah 7:14 But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations that they had not known, and the land was left desolate behind them so that no one could come or go. Thus they turned the pleasant land into a desolation." Treasury of Scripture And say to the people of the land, Thus said 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. with carefulness 1 Kings 17:10-12 that her Ezekiel 6:6,7,14 Ezekiel 36:3 Isaiah 6:11 Psalm 24:1 1 Corinthians 10:26,28 because Ezekiel 7:23 Genesis 6:11-13 Psalm 107:34 |