Variantly: "He made him ride on the high places of the earth": this world. "and he ate the shoots of the field": the four exiles. "and He gave him to suck honey from the rock": as it is written (Psalms 20:14) "The boar of the forest ravages it" (Israel). "and oil from the flint of the rock": The reference is to the "oppressors," who have seized upon Eretz Yisrael and from whom it is as difficult to extract a perutah (small coin) as from a rock, viz. (Ibid.) "and the crawler of the field feeds on it." In the future, Israel will inherit their possessions, which will be as sweet to it as honey and oil.