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Selected Verse: Ezekiel 12:18 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Eze 12:18 |
King James |
Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with carefulness; |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| Symbolical representation of the famine and fear with which they should eat their scanty morsel, in their exile, and especially at the siege. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| Here the sign is the exhibition of such terror as the danger of a siege creates. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| Eat thy bread with quaking - Assume the manner of a person who is every moment afraid of his life, who has nothing but a morsel of bread to eat, and a little water to drink. Thus signifying the siege, and the straits to which they should be reduced. See this explained, Eze 12:19 (note). |
19 And say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord GOD of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel; They shall eat their bread with carefulness, and drink their water with astonishment, that her land may be desolate from all that is therein, because of the violence of all them that dwell therein.