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Ezechiel 4:11

And thou shalt drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time to time thou shalt drink it,

Challoner: HinThat is, a measure of liquids containing about ten pints.

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The verse in its languages

Vulgate (Clementine): Et aquam in mensura bibes, sextam partem hin : a tempore usque ad tempus bibes illud.
Septuagint (Swete): καὶ ὕδωρ ἐν μέτρῳ πίεσαι, τὸ ἕκτον τοῦ εἳν ἀπὸ καιροῦ ἕως καιροῦ πίεσαι.
Hebrew (WLC): וּמַ֛יִם בִּמְשׂוּרָ֥ה תִשְׁתֶּ֖ה שִׁשִּׁ֣ית הַהִ֑ין מֵעֵ֥ת עַד עֵ֖ת תִּשְׁתֶּֽה

The Fathers on this verse

St Jerome The Letters of St. Jerome, To Marcella

1. The medical men called surgeons pass for being cruel, but really deserve pity. For is it not pitiful to cut away the dead flesh of another man with merciless knives without being moved by his pangs? Is it not pitiful that the man who is curing the patient is callous to his sufferings, and has to appear as his enemy? Yet such is the order of nature. While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evil-doing. Isaiah goes naked without blushing as a type of captivity to come. Jeremiah is sent from Jerusalem to the Euphrates (a river in Mesopotamia), and leaves his girdle to be marred in the Chaldæan camp, among the Assyrians hostile to his people. Ezekiel is told to eat bread made of mingled seeds and sprinkled with the dung of men and cattle. He has to see his wife die without shedding a tear. Amos is driven from Samaria. …