Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Ezekiel 12:17-20
(2.) THE SYMBOL FROM BREAD AND WATER (Ezekiel 12:17-20)EXEGETICAL NOTES.—The prophet is commanded to take his ordinary meals as a man under great apprehensions. It is not, as in chap. Ezekiel 4:16, that he is thus to indicate a dreadful scarcity approaching, but rather the felt pressure of that calamity, as if the evil threatened would take away all relish for sustenance to the body (Ezekiel 12:18). Ezekiel speaks in the Word of the Lord “of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, in the country of... read more
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Ezekiel 12:18
With quaking; with commotion or shakings, as one whose apprehension of danger brings as it were an earthquake upon him; and this trembling is the same thing, but in other words. Thy water: here is no mention of delicious and generous wines, but water; so low should they be reduced, and yet not enjoy this very little, because of the great inward fears that shake them. read more