OLD TESTAMENT

Ezekiel 4:16

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Moreover he said to me, “Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem. They will eat bread by weight, and with fearfulness. They will drink water by measure, and in dismay;

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Verse 16. Staff. As this supports the weak, so bread nourishes all men, ( Worthington.) particularly the bread of life. Saint Jerome—Very little food, ( Calmet.) and that of a nauseous kind, ( Bible.) would be found during the siege. Calmet.

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