Ezekiel 4:13

This verse is a key to the former. Even thus; scanty, mean, ill-dressed, and polluted in the very dressing, loathsome to any but starved bellies. The children of Israel; not only the house of Judah, but all the rest of the children of Israel; not in the siege only, but this misery should pursue them. Among the Gentiles; who would be ready enough to upbraid them, and twit them, as breaking the rules of their religion to fill their bellies: thus their sins would bring them to extremest want and shame.