Ezekiel Chapter 4 Back Next{4:1} You also, son of man, take a tile, and lay it before yourself, and portray on it a city, even
Jerusalem:
{4:2} 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.
{4:3} 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.
{4:4} 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.
{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.
{4:6} 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.
{4:7} You shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, with your arm uncovered; and you shall prophesy against it.
{4:8} Behold, 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.
{4:9} 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.
{4:10} Your
food which you shall eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time you shall eat it.
{4:11} You shall
drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time to time you shall drink.
{4:12} You shall eat it as barley
cakes, and you shall bake it in their sight with
dung that comes out of man.
{4:13} Yahweh said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their bread unclean, among the nations where I will drive them.
{4:14} Then I said, Ah Lord Yahweh! behold, 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.
{4:15} Then he said to me, Behold, I have given you cow's dung for man's dung, and you shall prepare your bread thereon.
{4:16} Moreover he said to me, Son of man, behold, 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:
{4:17} that they may want bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.
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