Ezekiel 4

1 "You also, son of man, take a tile, and lay it before yourself, and portray on it a city, even Jerusalem:NHEB — Ezekiel 4:1

2 and lay siege against it, and build forts against it, and cast up a mound against it; set camps also against it, and plant battering rams against it all around.NHEB — Ezekiel 4:2

3 Take for yourself an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between you and the city: and set your face toward it, and it shall be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.NHEB — Ezekiel 4:3

4 "Moreover lie on your left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel on it; according to the number of the days that you shall lie on it, you shall bear their iniquity.NHEB — Ezekiel 4:4

5 For I have appointed the years of their iniquity to be to you a number of days, even three hundred ninety days: so you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.NHEB — Ezekiel 4:5

6 "Again, when you have accomplished these, you shall lie on your right side, and shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah: forty days, each day for a year, have I appointed it to you.NHEB — Ezekiel 4:6

7 You shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, with your arm uncovered; and you shall prophesy against it.NHEB — Ezekiel 4:7

8 Look, I lay bands on you, and you shall not turn you from one side to the other, until you have accomplished the days of your siege.NHEB — Ezekiel 4:8

9 "Take for yourself also wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel, and make bread of it; according to the number of the days that you shall lie on your side, even three hundred ninety days, you shall eat of it.NHEB — Ezekiel 4:9

10 Your food which you shall eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time you shall eat it.NHEB — Ezekiel 4:10

11 You shall drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time to time you shall drink.NHEB — Ezekiel 4:11

12 You shall eat it as barley cakes, and you shall bake it in their sight with dung that comes out of man."NHEB — Ezekiel 4:12

13 The LORD said, "Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their bread unclean, among the nations where I will drive them."NHEB — Ezekiel 4:13

14 Then I said, "Ah Lord GOD. Look, my soul has not been polluted; for from my youth up even until now have I not eaten of that which dies of itself, or is torn of animals; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth."NHEB — Ezekiel 4:14

15 Then he said to me, "Look, I have given you cow's dung for man's dung, and you shall prepare your bread thereon."NHEB — Ezekiel 4:15

16 Moreover he said to me, "Son of man, look, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with fearfulness; and they shall drink water by measure, and in dismay:NHEB — Ezekiel 4:16

17 that they may want bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.NHEB — Ezekiel 4:17