24 Or “in their punishment.” Ezek 4:16–17 alludes to Lev 26:26, 39. The phrase “in/for [a person’s] iniquity” occurs fourteen times in Ezekiel: here, 3:18, 19; 7:13, 16; 18: 17, 18, 19, 20; 24:23; 33:6, 8, 9; 39:23. The Hebrew word for “iniquity” may also mean the “punishment for iniquity.”

In other versions

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.

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.

for lack of bread and water. Everyone will be devastated and waste away because of their iniquity.

Lacking food and water, people will look at one another in terror, and they will waste away under their punishment.

so that they will lack food and water, and they will be appalled with one another, and they will waste away because of their guilt.

That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.

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