Isaiah 30:20
Douay-Rheims
And the Lord will give you spare bread, and short water: and will not cause thy teacher to flee away from thee any more, and thy eyes shall see thy teacher.
Ibn Ezra
לחם צר Scanty bread. They were afflicted with famine, as I said before (29:17). מים לחץ The water of affliction. מים is not in the construct state, but מֵי the waters of is to be supplied. מים מי לחץ = מים לחץ; comp. שרה האהלה אהל = האהלה שרה to the tent, namely to the tent of Sarah. (Gen. 24:67)
Hebrew and Aramaic words are the commentator’s citations of the sacred text; the English translation that follows each is the translator’s.
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