“Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink water with trembling and with anxiety.
Here again the prophet is made a sign to them of the desolations that were coming on Judah and Jerusalem. 1. He must himself eat and drink in care and fear, especially when he was in company, Eze 12:17, Eze 12:18.
Commenting on Ezekiel 12:17-20
And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying. After he had been a sign unto the people, in the two instances above mentioned; and they had hardened themselves against the belief of the things signified by them, because the time of their accomplishment was not yet. And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying.
Symbolical representation of the famine and fear with which they should eat their scanty morsel, in their exile, and especially at the siege.