The people of the land – Chaldea.

Of the inhabitants – In respect to “the inhabitants.”

Desola…

To the people of the land, — that is, of the land of Chaldea: Ezekiel’s fellow-captives. All these prophecies, though concerning J…

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…

And say unto the people of the land
Of Chaldea, where the prophet now was; not the natives of the land, but the Isra…

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…