Ezekiel 4–8

4Thou 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 ^yyan 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.

5^*And thou, son of man, ^atake thee ^ba sharp knife, take thee ^ca barber’s rasor, and ^dcause it to pass upon thine head and upon thy beard: then take thee balances to weigh, and divide the hair. ²Thou shalt burn with fire ^ea third part in the midst of ^fthe city, when ^gthe days of the siege are fulfilled: and thou shalt take a third part, and smite about it with a knife: and a third part ^hthou shalt scatter in the wind; and ⁱI will draw out a sword after them. ^3kThou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy ^†skirts. ^4lThen take of them again, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire; for thereof shall a fire come forth into all the house of Israel.

⁵Thus saith the Lord God; ^fThis is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and ^mcountries that are round about her. ⁶And she ⁿhath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than ^mthe countries that are round about her: for they have refused my judgments and ^omy statutes, they have not walked in them. ⁷Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because ye ^pmultiplied more than the nations ^mthat are round about you, and ^ohave not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my judgments, ^qneither have done according to the judgments of the nations ^mthat are round about you; ⁸Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I, even I, am against thee, and ^qqwill execute judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the nations. ⁹And I will do in thee ^rthat which I have not done, and whereunto I will not do any more the like, because of all thine abominations. ¹⁰Therefore ^sthe fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and ^sthe sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I ^tscatter into all the winds. ¹¹Wherefore, ^uas I live, saith the Lord God; Surely, because ^vthou hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy ^wdetestable things, and with all thine ^wabominations, therefore will I also ^xdiminish thee; ^yneither ^zshall mine eye spare, ^yneither will I have any pity. ¹²A ^athird part of thee shall die with ^bthe pestilence, and with ^bfamine shall they be consumed in the midst of thee: and a third part shall fall by ^bthe sword round about thee; and ^cI will scatter a third part into all the winds, and ^dI will draw out a sword after them. ¹³Thus ^eshall ^jmine anger be accomplished, and ^fI will cause ^jmy fury to rest upon them, and ^gI will be comforted: and they shall know that I the Lord ^hhave spoken it in ^ijmy zeal, ^ewhen I have accomplished my fury in them. ¹⁴Moreover ^kI will make thee waste, and ^la reproach among the nations ^mthat are round about thee, ⁿin the sight of all that pass by. ¹⁵So it shall be ^la reproach and ^opa taunt, ^qan instruction and ^oran astonishment unto the nations ^mthat are round about thee, when I shall execute judgments in thee in anger and in fury and ^sin furious ^qrebukes. I the Lord have spoken it. ¹⁶When I shall send upon them ^tthe evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and ^uwill break your staff of bread: ¹⁷So will I send upon you ^vfamine and ^vwevil beasts, and they shall ^xbereave thee; and ^vypestilence and ^yblood shall pass through thee; and I will bring ^vthe sword upon thee. I the Lord have spoken it.

6And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, ²Son of man, ^aset thy face toward ^bthe mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them, ^3bbAnd say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God; Thus saith the Lord God ^cto the mountains, and ^cto the hills, to ^cdthe rivers, and ^ceto the valleys; Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, and ^fI will destroy your high places. ⁴And your altars shall be desolate, and ^fyour ^||images shall be broken: and ^fgI will cast down your slain men before your idols. ⁵And ^fI will ^†lay the dead carcases of the children of Israel before their idols; and ^gI ^hwill scatter your bones round about your altars. ⁶In all your dwellingplaces the cities ⁱshall be laid waste, and ^fthe high places ^gshall be desolate; that your altars ⁱmay be laid waste and ^jmade desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your ^kimages may be cut down, and your works may be abolished. ⁷And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, ^land ye shall know that I am the Lord.

^8mYet will I leave a remnant, that ye may have ⁿsome that shall escape the sword among the nations, ^owhen ye shall be scattered through the countries. ⁹And ⁿthey that escape of you ^mpshall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, because ^qI am broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and ^rwith their eyes, which ^sgo a whoring after their idols: and ^ptthey shall lothe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations. ¹⁰And ^lthey shall know that I am the Lord, and that ^uI have not said ^vin vain that I would do this evil unto them.

¹¹Thus saith the Lord God; Smite ^wwith thine hand, and ^xstamp with thy foot, and say, Alas for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel! for ^ythey shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence. ^12yHe that is far off shall die of the pestilence; and he that is near shall fall by the sword; and he that remaineth and is besieged shall die by the famine: ^zthus will I accomplish my fury upon them. ¹³Then ^lshall ye know that I am the Lord, ^awhen their slain men shall be among their idols round about their altars, ^bupon every high hill, ^cin all the tops of the mountains, and ^bunder every green tree, and ^cunder every thick ^doak, the place where they did offer ^esweet savour to all their idols. ¹⁴So will I ^fstretch out my hand upon them, and ^gmake the land desolate, yea, ^||more desolate than the wilderness toward ⁱDiblath, ^kin all their habitations: ^land they shall know that I am the Lord.

7Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, ²Also, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord God unto the land of ^aIsrael; ^bAn end, the end is come upon the four ^ccorners of the land. ³Now ^bis the end come upon thee, and I will send mine anger upon thee, and ^dwill judge thee according to thy ways, and ^dwill ^†recompense upon thee all thine abominations. ^4eAnd ^fmine eye shall not spare thee, ^fneither will I have pity: but ^egI will recompense thy ways upon thee, ^eand thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee: ^hand ye shall know that I am the Lord.

⁵Thus saith the Lord God; An evil, an only evil, behold, is come. ^6bAn end is come, the end is come: it ^†watcheth for thee; behold, it is come. ⁷ⁱThe morning is come unto thee, O thou that dwellest in the land: ^jthe time is come, ^ikthe day of trouble is near, and not the ^||lsounding again of the mountains. ⁸Now will I ^mshortly ⁿpour out my fury upon thee, and ^oaccomplish mine anger upon thee: and ^dI will judge thee according to thy ways, and ^dwill recompense thee for all thine abominations. ^9efAnd mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: ^dI will recompense ^†thee according to thy ways ^eand thine abominations that are in the midst of thee; ^ehand ye shall know that I am the Lord ^p…