Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied
Either not having enough to eat, for the refreshing and
satisfying of nature; or else a blessing being withheld from
food, though eaten, and so not nourishing; or a voracious and
insatiable appetite being given as a curse; the first sense seems
best: and thy casting down [shall be] in the midst of
thee;
meaning they should be humbled and brought down, either by civil
discords and wars among themselves, or through the enemy being
suffered to come into the midst of their country, and make havoc
there; which would be as a sickness and disease in their bowels.
So the Targum,
``thou shalt have an illness in thy bowels.''The Syriac version is,
``a dysentery shall be in thine intestines;''a secret judgment wasting and destroying them; and thou shall take hold, but shall not deliver; and [that] which thou