Ezekiel 4:9–15
Ezekiel’s Strange Defiled Meal
9 “And you, take for yourselfi wheat and barley and beans and lentils and milletj and spelt, and you must put them in one vessel, and you must make them for yourselfk into a food during the number of days that you are lying on your side; three hundred and ninety days you shall eat it. 10 And your food that you will eatl will be according to weight; twenty shekels for each day ⌊at fixed times⌋m you shall eat it. 11 And ⌊an amount of water⌋n you shall drink, a sixth of a hin; ⌊at fixed times⌋o you shall drink it. 12 And as a bread-cake of barley you shall eat it, and ⌊with human excrement⌋p you shall bake it before their eyes.” 13 And Yahweh said, “Thus shall the ⌊Israelites⌋q eat their unclean food among the nations ⌊where I will scatter them⌋.”r 14 And I said, “Ah, Lord Yahweh! Look! I have not been defiling myself, and a dead body and mangled carcass I have not eaten from my childhood until now, and ⌊unclean meat⌋s has not come into my mouth!” 15 And he said to me, “See I will give you ⌊cattle manure⌋t in the place of the feces of a human, and you may prepare your food on it.”