Here the sign is the exhibition of such terror as the danger of a siege creates.

Eat thy bread with quaking.— This is another symbolical action, the meaning of which is immediately explained. The prophe…

The Prophet is now ordered to represent the famine that awaited the Jews in both the siege and exile. But this prophecy ought to be especially refe…

Son of man, eat your bread with quaking As one in surprise or fear, or that has got an ague upon him: and dri…

The prophet must eat and drink in anxiety and fear, with trembling, that he might express the condition of those in Jerusalem during the siege. Whe…