And say: Thus saith the king: Put this fellow in prison, and give him bread and water in a small quantity till I return in peace.

and ye have said, Thus said the king, Put ye this one in the house of restraint, and cause him to eat bread of oppression, and water of oppression, till my return in peace.'

And say, By the king's order this man is to be put in prison, and given prison food till I come back in peace.

and say: Thus saith the king: Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with scant bread and with scant water, until I return in peace.'

And you shall say: 'Thus says the king: Send this man to prison, and give to him a little bread and a little water, until I return in peace.' "

And say, Thus saith the king, Put this [fellow] in the prison, and feed him with bread of (r) affliction and with water of affliction, until I return in peace.
(r) Keep him in prison, and let him feel hunger and thirst.

This fellow, &c. - How frequently has this been the lot of faithful ministers, to be hated and ill treated, merely for being true to God: and just and kind to the souls of men! But that day will declare who is in the right, and who is in the wrong, when Christ appears to the unspeakable consolation of the persecuted, and the everlasting confusion of their persecutors.