Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink your water with trembling and with carefulness;
Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink your water with trembling and with carefulness;
Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with fearfulness;
Son of man, take your food with shaking fear, and your water with trouble and care;
Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with solicitude.
Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink your water with trembling and with fearfulness;
Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with carefulness;
Eat thy bread with quaking - Assume the manner of a person who is every moment afraid of his life, who has nothing but a morsel of bread to eat, and a little water to drink. Thus signifying the siege, and the straits to which they should be reduced. See this explained, Ezekiel 12:19 (note).
Here the sign is the exhibition of such terror as the danger of a siege creates.