As barley cakes: these were delicacies with them when they could temper and make them right, but now these pitiful things should be to these half-starved bodies as delicates, Or rather, because they were greedy, and could not stay till they were baked. Or, lest any should take it from them. Or, because they never had enough to make a loaf with, they eat them as barley cakes. With dung; there would be no wood left for such necessary uses, nor yet dung of other creatures, they would be all consumed by the length of the siege too. What loathsome food was this! yet in this straitness of the siege they are brought to it. In their sight; openly, that any might see it. From this passage some conclude this was actually done, and not only represented in a vision.
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Ezekiel 4:12
12 And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight.