Ezekiel 4:10 And your food that you eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day; from day to day you shall eat it. 11 And water you shall drink by measure, the sixth part of a hin; from day to day you shall drink. 12 And you shall eat it as a barley cake, baking it in their sight on human dung.” 13 And the Lord said, “Thus shall the people of Israel eat their bread unclean, among the nations where I will drive them.” ...16 Moreover, he said to me, “Son of man, behold, I will break the supply of bread in Jerusalem. They shall eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and they shall drink water by measure and in dismay. 17 I will do this that they may lack bread and water, and look at one another in dismay, and rot away because of their punishment.
We have already seen a graphic illustration of the war which plaque Judah up until the time of their Exile. God now gives Ezekiel an illustration to carry out for an extended time: limited food and water. There was going to be great drought and famine. The more stubborn and rebellious they were, the more severe would be their punishment. Those who resisted His chastising hand would fair worse than those taken in exile; they would see their bread and water completely vanish. One way or another, His judgment would come.
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