Lie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it: [according] to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their iniquity.
Ver. 4. Lie thou also upon thy left side.] Which for so long a time to do, could not but put the prophet to great pain, and try his patience to the utmost, especially if he lay bound all the while, as Theodoret thinketh he did, to set forth Jerusalem's great miseries during the siege, or rather God's infinite patience in bearing with their evil manners with so perverse a people.
Thou shalt bear their iniquity,] i.e., Represent my bearing it, and forbearing to punish them for it.