Ezekiel 4:15

Then he said to me,.... The Lord hearkened to the prophet's prayer and argument, and makes some abatement and alteration in the charge he gave him:

lo, I have given thee cow's dung for man's dung:…

The best exposition of this part of Ezekiel's prediction of Jerusalem's desolation is Jeremiah's lamentation of it, Lam 4:3, Lam 4:4, etc., and Lam 4:10, where he pathetically describes the terrible…

Symbol of scarcity during the siege and pollution in the dispersion from having to eat unclean things among the Gentiles

The passage continues Eze 4:4. The prophet is commanded (while lying immovably…