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that they may want bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.
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Sin's Just Consequence
All commentators agree that the horrifying famine and despair are not random but are the direct and just consequences of the people's iniquity. Matthew Henry states it plainly: because they abused God's blessings of plenty for luxury, they were justly punished with scarcity, revealing the 'woeful work sin makes.'
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Ezekiel
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16th Century
Protestant
God returns again to the citizens of Jerusalem and announces that they would be so destroyed by famine that they would be reduced to the direst ext…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
That they may want bread and water Or, "because they shall want" F12 &c. therefore they shall eat the one, and drin…
Presbyterian
The bread that was Ezekiel's support was to be made of coarse grain and pulse mixed together, seldom used except in times of urgent scarcity, and h…
