Ezekiel 4

Thou also, son of man, ^atake thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and ^bpourtray upon it the city, even Jerusalem: ²and ^clay siege against it, and ^debuild a fort against it, and ^dfcast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and ^gset battering rams against it round about. ³Moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city: and ⁱset thy face against it, and ^cit shall be besieged, and ^jthou shalt lay siege against it. ^kThis shall be a sign to the house of Israel.

⁴Lie thou also ^lupon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it: according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt ^mbear their iniquity. ⁵For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, ⁿaccording to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days: ⁿso shalt thou ^mbear the iniquity of the house of Israel. ⁶And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again ^lon thy right side, and thou shalt ^mbear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: ⁿI have appointed thee each day for a year. ⁷Therefore ⁱthou shalt set thy face toward ^cthe siege of Jerusalem, and ^othine arm shall be uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against it. ⁸And behold, ^pI will lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn thee from one side to another, till thou hast ended ^qthe days of thy ^csiege.

⁹Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and ^rbeans, and ^rslentiles, and millet, and ^tfitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, ^uaccording to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, ^qthree hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof. ¹⁰And ^tvthy meat which thou shalt eat shall be ^vby weight, twenty ^wshekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it. ^11xThou shalt drink also water ^xyby measure, the sixth part of ^yya hin: from time to time shalt thou drink. ¹²And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, ^zin their sight. ¹³And the Lord said, Even thus ^zzshall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them. ¹⁴Then said I, ^aAh Lord God, behold, my soul hath not been polluted: ^bfor from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of ^cdthat which dieth of itself, or ^ceis torn in pieces; neither came there ^fabominable flesh into my mouth. ¹⁵Then he said unto me, Lo, I have given thee cow’s dung ^gfor man’s dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith. ¹⁶Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, ^hI will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and ^vthey shall eat bread by weight, and ⁱwith care; and ^xthey shall drink water by measure, and ⁱwith astonishment: ¹⁷that they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and ^kconsume away for their iniquity.

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