And thy meat which thou shalt eat [shall be] by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it.
Ver. 10. Twenty shekels a day.] Five ounces, or ten at most; not prisoners' pittance, qua proinde per diem trahitur magis anima quam sustentatur. See this complained of, Lamentations 1:11; Lamentations 1:19; Lamentations 2:11,12; Lamentations 2:19,20; Lamentations 4:4; Lamentations 4:9,10; Lamentations 5:6; Lamentations 5:9,10. They had sinned in excess, and now they are punished with cleanness of teeth. The famine of the word is far worse.