Lexicon :: Strong's G2068 - esthiō

“If you are willing and obedient,

you will eat the good things of the land.

Tell the righteous that it will go well for them,

for they will eat the fruit of their labor.

On that day seven women

will seize one man, saying,

“We will eat our own bread

and provide our own clothing.

Just let us bear your name.

Take away our disgrace.”

Lambs will graze

as if in[fn] their own pastures,

and resident aliens[fn] will eat

among the ruins of the rich.

“By the time he learns to reject what is bad and choose what is good, he will be eating curds[fn] and honey.

They carve meat on the right,

but they are still hungry;

they have eaten on the left,

but they are still not satisfied.

Each one eats the flesh of his arm.

Israel’s Light will become a fire,

and its Holy One, a flame.

In one day it will burn and consume Assyria’s thorns and thistles.

The cow and the bear will graze,

their young ones will lie down together,

and the lion will eat straw like cattle.

Prepare a table, and spread out a carpet!

Eat and drink!

Rise up, you princes, and oil the shields!

But look: joy and gladness,

butchering of cattle, slaughtering of sheep and goats,

eating of meat, and drinking of wine —

“Let’s eat and drink, for tomorrow we die! ”

But her profits and wages will be dedicated to the LORD. They will not be stored or saved, for her profit will go to those who live in the LORD’s presence, to provide them with ample food and sacred clothing.

Therefore a curse has consumed the earth,

and its inhabitants have become guilty;

the earth’s inhabitants have been burned,

and only a few survive.

LORD, your hand is lifted up to take action,

but they do not see it.

Let them see your zeal for your people

and be put to shame.

Let fire consume your adversaries.

Indeed, all their tables are covered with vomit;

there is no place without a stench.

Woe to Ariel,[fn] Ariel,

the city where David camped!

Continue year after year;

let the festivals recur.

The oxen and donkeys that work the ground will eat salted fodder scattered with winnowing shovel and fork.

But the royal spokesman replied, “Has my master sent me to speak these words to your master and to you, and not to the men who are sitting on the wall, who are destined with you to eat their own excrement and drink their own urine? ”

“ ‘This will be the sign for you: This year you will eat what grows on its own, and in the second year what grows from that. But in the third year sow and reap, plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

He burns half of it in a fire,

and he roasts meat on that half.

He eats the roast and is satisfied.

He warms himself and says, “Ah!

I am warm, I see the blaze.”

“I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh,

and they will be drunk with their own blood

as with sweet wine.

Then all humanity will know

that I, the LORD, am your Savior,

and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”

“Why do you spend silver on what is not food,

and your wages on what does not satisfy?

Listen carefully to me, and eat what is good,

and you will enjoy the choicest of foods.[fn]

All you animals of the field and forest,

come and eat!

They hatch viper’s eggs

and weave spider’s webs.

Whoever eats their eggs will die;

crack one open, and a viper is hatched.

You will nurse on the milk of nations,

and nurse at the breast of kings;

you will know that I, the LORD, am your Savior

and Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.

For those who gather grain will eat it

and praise the LORD,

and those who harvest the grapes will drink the wine

in my holy courts.

“sitting among the graves,

spending nights in secret places,

eating the meat of pigs,

and putting polluted broth in their bowls.[fn]

“Those who dedicate and purify themselves to enter the groves following their leader,[fn] eating meat from pigs, vermin,[fn] and rats, will perish together.”

This is the LORD’s declaration.