Then said I, I will not feed you: that that dieth, let it die; and that that is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let the rest eat every one the flesh of another.
Then said I - at last, when all means of saving the nations had been used in vain (John 8:24), "I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins; for if ye believe not that I am He, ye shall die in your sins."
I will not feed you - i:e., I will no more feed you. The last rejection of the Jews is foretold, of which the former, under Nebuchadnezzar, similarly described, was the type (Jeremiah 15:1-3; Jeremiah 34:17; Jeremiah 43:11; Ezekiel 6:12). That that dieth, let it die; and that that is to be cut off, let it be cut off - perish those who are doomed to perish, since they reject Him who would have saved them. Let them rush on their own ruin, since they will have it so.
And let the rest eat every one the flesh of another - let them madly perish by mutual discords. Josephus attests the fulfillment of this prophecy of threefold calamity: pestilence and famine ("dieth ... die"), war ("cut off ... cut off"), intestine discord ("eat every one the flesh of another").