¹⁸ Son of man, take your food with shaking fear, and your water with trouble and care;

²⁶ When I take away your bread of life, ten women will be cooking bread in one oven, and your bread will be measured out by weight; you will have food but never enough.

¹⁶ And he said to me, Son of man, see, I will take away from Jerusalem her necessary bread: they will take their bread by weight and with care, measuring out their drinking-water with fear and wonder:

¹⁷ So that they may be in need of bread and water and be wondering at one another, wasting away in their sin.

⁹ We put our lives in danger to get our bread, because of the sword of the waste land.

⁴ My heart is broken; it has become dry and dead like grass, so that I give no thought to food.

⁵ Because of the voice of my sorrow, my flesh is wasted to the bone.

⁶ I am like a bird living by itself in the waste places; like the night-bird in a waste of sand.

⁷ I keep watch like a bird by itself on the house-top.

⁸ My haters say evil of me all day; those who are violent against me make use of my name as a curse.

⁹ I have had dust for bread and my drink has been mixed with weeping:

⁵ You have given them the bread of weeping for food; for their drink you have given them sorrow in great measure.

² By the power of your hand the earth is shaking and broken; make it strong again, for it is moved.

³ You have made the people see hard times; you have given us the wine of shaking for our drink.

²⁴ In place of my food I have grief, and cries of sorrow come from me like water.

⁶⁵ And even among these nations there will be no peace for you, and no rest for your feet: but the Lord will give you there a shaking heart and wasting eyes and weariness of soul:

⁴⁸ For this cause you will become servants to those whom the Lord your God will send against you, without food and drink and clothing, and in need of all things: and he will put a yoke of iron on your neck till he has put an end to you.

³⁶ And as for the rest of you, I will make their hearts feeble in the land of their haters, and the sound of a leaf moved by the wind will send them in flight, and they will go in flight as from the sword, falling down when no one comes after them;

³³ You will be broken and full of sorrow, with the cup of wonder and destruction, with the cup of your sister Samaria.