That they may want bread and water,.... Or, "because they shall want" (l) c. therefore they shall eat the one, and drink the other, by weight or they shall do this till there shall be none to eat and drink:
and be astonished one with another; when they shall find they cannot relieve one another; and not knowing what method to take for the support of nature:
and consume away for their iniquity; their flesh upon them black through famine, putrid and noisome; and they wasting, pining, and consuming; reduced to skin and bones; and disagreeable to look upon; and all because of their sins and iniquities.
(l) למען "eo quod", Munster, Vatablus; "propterea", Tigurine version.
That they may want bread and water,.... Or, "because they shall want" (l) c. therefore they shall eat the one, and drink the other, by weight or they shall do this till there shall be none to eat and drink:
and be astonished one with another; when they shall find they cannot relieve one another; and not knowing what method to take for the support of nature:
and consume away for their iniquity; their flesh upon them black through famine, putrid and noisome; and they wasting, pining, and consuming; reduced to skin and bones; and disagreeable to look upon; and all because of their sins and iniquities.
(l) למען "eo quod", Munster, Vatablus; "propterea", Tigurine version.