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Explain the meaning of this unusual and uncomfortable manner of eating and drinking
unto the people; the common sort of people, distinguished from rulers, of the land of Chaldea, in which the Jews were captives. Tell thy fellow captives who grudge and repent their coming hither, where they have much sorrow, yet some safety, plenty, and rest.
Of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, who are not yet captivated; their sorrows are coming, and their state will be worse than yours.
Of the land of Israel; nor will it be better with, those that dwell in the countries round about Jerusalem, they will flee for refuge into Jerusalem, and there perish. Eat their bread with carefulness; their very comforts shall be uncomfortable to them.
Her land; Jerusalem’s land, so called because it was the head city thereof.
May be desolate; because that it is already, or shortly shall be, waste, emptied, though it was full of inhabitants, wealth, and plenty.
Violence; injustice, oppression, and tyranny of the Jews toward one another, Jer_6:7 20:8 Eze_7:23; and this grown an epidemical sin, Eze_22:9,12, from highest to lowest.