Ezequiel 4

Ezequiel 4:10

And the prophet Ezekiel also, when he was about to receive the revelation of the prophecy of the uprooting of the city and the overthrowing of the temple, did the word of God bring into severe tribulations to eat bread by weight, and to drink water by measure, and to sleep upon his side in affliction, and then he arrived at the vision of prophecy. And thus also thou canst shew that all the righteous men and Prophets, either by their own will, or by God's command unto them, endured always tribulations and labours. — 13 Ascetic Discourses, Discourse 11 -- On Abstinence