Ezekiel 4:17
That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.
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Gill's Exposition
That they may want bread and water,.... Or, "because they shall want" (l) &c. therefore they shall eat the one, and drink the other, by weight; or they shall do this till there shall be none to eat…
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…
Explanation of the symbol of eating bread by measure (Eze 4:10-11).