I ate no pleasant bread - Margin, bread of desires. So the Hebrew. The meaning is that he abstained from ordinary food and…

Pleasant bread — that is, delicate food. Abstaining from this as well as from the use of oil (compare to [Reference 2 Samuel 12:20…

We gather from this passage why the angel appeared to the Prophet in the third year of Cyrus. He says, he was then in the greatest sorrow;…

I ate no pleasant bread
Or, "bread of desires" ^F4 ; such as was made of the finest of the wheat, and was …