When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for [their] destruction, [and] which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread:
Ver. 16. When I shall send upon you the evil arrows of famine.] Not to warn you, as Jonathan's arrows did David, but to wound you to the heart, and to lay you heaps upon heaps. Deu 32:23-24
And break your staff of bread.] See Ezekiel 4:16. Penuria fiet pecuniae, saith Oecolampadius here; You shall want money to buy you bread.