26 (A)When I have cut off your supply of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall bring back your bread by weight, (B)and you shall eat and not be satisfied.

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26 When I cut off your supply of bread,(A) ten women will be able to bake your bread in one oven, and they will dole out the bread by weight. You will eat, but you will not be satisfied.

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14 (A)You shall eat, but not be satisfied;
[a]Hunger shall be in your midst.
You may carry some away,[b] but shall not save them;
And what you do rescue I will give over to the sword.

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  1. Micah 6:14 Or Emptiness or Humiliation
  2. Micah 6:14 Tg., Vg. You shall take hold

14 You will eat but not be satisfied;(A)
    your stomach will still be empty.[a]
You will store up but save nothing,(B)
    because what you save[b] I will give to the sword.

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  1. Micah 6:14 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
  2. Micah 6:14 Or You will press toward birth but not give birth, / and what you bring to birth

Judgment on Judah and Jerusalem

For behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts,
(A)Takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah
(B)The[a] stock and the store,
The whole supply of bread and the whole supply of water;

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  1. Isaiah 3:1 Every support

Judgment on Jerusalem and Judah

See now, the Lord,
    the Lord Almighty,
is about to take from Jerusalem and Judah
    both supply and support:(A)
all supplies of food(B) and all supplies of water,(C)

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16 When I (A)send against them the terrible arrows of famine which shall be for destruction, which I will send to destroy you, I will increase the famine upon you and cut off your (B)supply of bread.

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16 When I shoot at you with my deadly and destructive arrows of famine, I will shoot to destroy you. I will bring more and more famine upon you and cut off your supply of food.(A)

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16 Moreover (A)He called for a famine in the land;
He destroyed all the (B)provision of bread.

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16 He called down famine(A) on the land
    and destroyed all their supplies of food;

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“You have (A)sown much, and bring in little;
You eat, but do not have enough;
You drink, but you are not filled with drink;
You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm;
And (B)he who earns wages,
Earns wages to put into a bag with holes.”

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You have planted much, but harvested little.(A) You eat, but never have enough.(B) You drink, but never have your fill.(C) You put on clothes, but are not warm. You earn wages,(D) only to put them in a purse with holes in it.”

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13 “Son of man, when a land sins against Me by persistent unfaithfulness, I will stretch out My hand against it; I will cut off its (A)supply of bread, send famine on it, and cut off man and beast from it.

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13 “Son of man, if a country sins(A) against me by being unfaithful and I stretch out my hand against it to cut off its food supply(B) and send famine upon it and kill its people and their animals,(C)

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16 Moreover He said to me, “Son of man, surely I will cut off the (A)supply of bread in Jerusalem; they shall (B)eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and shall (C)drink water by measure and with dread,

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16 He then said to me: “Son of man, I am about to cut off(A) the food supply in Jerusalem. The people will eat rationed food in anxiety and drink rationed water in despair,(B)

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20 And he shall [a]snatch on the right hand
And be hungry;
He shall devour on the left hand
(A)And not be satisfied;
(B)Every man shall eat the flesh of his own arm.

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  1. Isaiah 9:20 slice off or tear

20 On the right they will devour,
    but still be hungry;(A)
on the left they will eat,(B)
    but not be satisfied.
Each will feed on the flesh of their own offspring[a]:

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  1. Isaiah 9:20 Or arm

10 For (A)they shall eat, but not have enough;
They shall commit harlotry, but not increase;
Because they have ceased obeying the Lord.

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10 “They will eat but not have enough;(A)
    they will engage in prostitution(B) but not flourish,
because they have deserted(C) the Lord
    to give themselves

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10 And your food which you eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day; from time to time you shall eat it.

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10 Weigh out twenty shekels[a](A) of food to eat each day and eat it at set times.

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  1. Ezekiel 4:10 That is, about 8 ounces or about 230 grams

Even the jackals present their breasts
To nurse their young;
But the daughter of my people is cruel,
(A)Like ostriches in the wilderness.

The tongue of the infant clings
To the roof of its mouth for thirst;
(B)The young children ask for bread,
But no one breaks it for them.

Those who ate delicacies
Are desolate in the streets;
Those who were brought up in scarlet
(C)Embrace ash heaps.

The punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people
Is greater than the punishment of the (D)sin of Sodom,
Which was (E)overthrown in a moment,
With no hand to help her!

Her [a]Nazirites were [b]brighter than snow
And whiter than milk;
They were more ruddy in body than rubies,
Like sapphire in their [c]appearance.

Now their appearance is blacker than soot;
They go unrecognized in the streets;
(F)Their skin clings to their bones,
It has become as dry as wood.

Those slain by the sword are better off
Than those who die of hunger;
For these (G)pine away,
Stricken for lack of the fruits of the (H)field.

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  1. Lamentations 4:7 Or nobles
  2. Lamentations 4:7 Or purer
  3. Lamentations 4:7 Lit. polishing

Even jackals offer their breasts
    to nurse their young,
but my people have become heartless
    like ostriches in the desert.(A)

Because of thirst(B) the infant’s tongue
    sticks to the roof of its mouth;(C)
the children beg for bread,
    but no one gives it to them.(D)

Those who once ate delicacies
    are destitute in the streets.
Those brought up in royal purple(E)
    now lie on ash heaps.(F)

The punishment of my people
    is greater than that of Sodom,(G)
which was overthrown in a moment
    without a hand turned to help her.

Their princes were brighter than snow
    and whiter than milk,
their bodies more ruddy than rubies,
    their appearance like lapis lazuli.

But now they are blacker(H) than soot;
    they are not recognized in the streets.
Their skin has shriveled on their bones;(I)
    it has become as dry as a stick.

Those killed by the sword are better off
    than those who die of famine;(J)
racked with hunger, they waste away
    for lack of food from the field.(K)

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12 (A)When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and (B)when they offer burnt offering and grain offering, I will not accept them. But (C)I will consume them by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence.”

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12 Although they fast, I will not listen to their cry;(A) though they offer burnt offerings(B) and grain offerings,(C) I will not accept(D) them. Instead, I will destroy them with the sword,(E) famine(F) and plague.”(G)

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