18Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with carefulness;
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.
Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.
My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread. …
And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 17-20)Here again the prophet is made a sign to them of the desolations that were coming on Judah and Jerusalem. 1. He must himself eat and drink in care and fear, especially when he was in company, Ezek. 12:17 , 18 . Though he was under no apprehension of danger to himself, but lived in safety and plenty, yet he must eat his bread with quaking (the bread of sorrows, Ps. 127:2) and drink his water with t…
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