Broken the staff of your bread; either,
1. By taking away that power and virtue of nourishing which I have put into bread or food, which when I withdraw it will be unable to nourish. Or rather,
2. By sending a famine, or scarcity of bread, which is the staff and support of man's present life, Psalms 104:15; for so this phrase is commonly used, and elsewhere explained, as Psalms 105:16 Ezekiel 4:16, and so the following words expound it here. Ten women, i.e. ten or many families, for the women took care for the bread and food of all the family. Bread by weight: this is a sign and consequence both of a famine, and of the baking of the bread of several families together in one oven, wherein each family took care to weigh their bread, and to receive the same proportion which they put in. Compare Ezekiel 4:16.