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Ezekiel presents a tiny bread and water ration before worried but dignified exiles.
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Ezekiel 4:16-17

Scarcity before the exiles

Signs of the Coming Siege · Ezekiel 4

Story guide: The meager ration before the exiles illustrates the bread and water scarcity Ezekiel announces.

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16Then he said to me, “Son of man, behold, I am breaking the staff of bread in Jerusalem, and they will eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and they will drink water by measure and with horror.”

17so that they may lack bread and water, and each man and his brother may be appalled, and waste away in their iniquity.

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