And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers:
And (though) the Lord give you the bread of adversity. The though is not in the original. 'The Lord will give you bread' and "water," attended with trials for a time, as the preliminary discipline needed for ultimately bestowing the fullest blessings, temporal and spiritual, upon you.
Bread of adversity - He will not deny you food enough to save you in your adversity (1 Kings 22:27; Psalms 127:2). Thy teachers be removed into a corner - or else, wing their flight away ( yikaaneep (H3670), from kaanap (H3670)); 'hide themselves.' They shall no more be forced to hide themselves from persecution, but shall be openly received with reverence (Maurer). Contrast with this the Jews' state in their Babylonian exile and in their present long dispersion. "We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet" (Psalms 74:9; Amos 8:11). The verb is singular; the subject, "thy teachers," is plural distributively: 'thy teachers shall not be removed each into a corner.' In Hezekiah's time, though the Lord tried His people with affliction, He never forsook them, but sent good teachers among them; and so in the times following, up to the restoration from Babylon, He sent Hosea, Amos, Nahum, Habakkuk, Ezekiel, Daniel, Zechariah, Haggai, Malachi. The ultimate reference is to the times of affliction which shall immediately precede the final restoration of Israel, when Elijah, or prophets of his spirit and power, shall be sent (Malachi 4:4-6).