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1 “You
also, son of
man, take a
tile, and lay
it before yourself,
and portray on it
a city, even
Jerusalem.
2 Lay
siege against it,
build forts
against it, and
cast up a mound
against it. Also
set camps against
it and plant
battering rams
against it all
around.
3 Take
for yourself an
iron pan and
set it for
a wall of
iron between you
and the city.
Then set your
face toward it.
It will be
besieged, and you
shall lay siege
against it. This
shall be a sign
to the house
of Israel.
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.
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.
6 “Again,
when you have
accomplished these,
you shall lie
on your right side,
and shall bear
the iniquity of
the house of
Judah. I have
appointed forty days,
each day for
a year, to
you.
7 You
shall set your
face toward the
siege of Jerusalem,
with your arm
uncovered; and you
shall prophesy
against it.
8 Behold,
I put ropes
on you, and
you shall not
turn yourself from
one side to
the other, until
you have
accomplished the
days of your
siege.
9 “Take
for yourself also
wheat, barley,
beans, lentils,
millet, and spelt,
and put them
in one vessel.
Make bread of
it. According to
the number of
the days that
you will lie
on your side,
even three hundred
ninety days, you
shall eat of
it.
10 Your
food which you
shall eat shall
be by weight,
twenty shekels
a day. From
time to time
you shall eat
it.
11 You
shall drink water
by measure, the
sixth part of
a hin.
From time to
time you shall
drink.
12 You
shall eat it as
barley cakes, and
you shall bake
it in their sight
with dung
that comes out
of man.”
13 The
LORD said, “Even
thus will the
children of Israel
eat their bread
unclean, among the
nations where I
will drive them.”
14 Then
I said, “Ah Lord
GOD! Behold, my
soul has not
been polluted; for
from my youth
up even until
now I have
not eaten of that
which dies of
itself, or is
torn of animals.
No abominable meat
has come into my
mouth!”
15 Then
he said to me, “Behold, I have given
you cow’s dung for
man’s dung, and
you shall prepare
your bread on
it.”
16 Moreover
he said to me, “Son
of man, behold,
I will break
the staff of
bread in Jerusalem.
They will eat
bread by weight,
and with fearfulness.
They will drink
water by measure,
and in dismay;
17 that they
may lack bread
and water,
be dismayed one
with another, and pine
away in their
iniquity.