Ezekiel 4:2–8

²And you must build against it siege works, and you must build against it a bulwark, and you must heap against it a siege ramp, and you must set up against it camps and put against it a battering ram all around. ³And take for yourself a plate of iron, and you must place it as a wall of iron between you and the city, and you must set your face against it, and it must be under siege,^d and you must lay the siege against it; it is a sign for the house of Israel. ⁴And you, lie down on your left side, and you must put^e the guilt of the house of Israel on it. You will carry their guilt the number of days that you will lie on it. ⁵And I will give to you the years of their guilt according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days, and you must bear the guilt^f of the house of Israel. ⁶When you have completed these, then you must lie a second time on your right side; and you must bear the guilt^g of the house of Judah forty days, a day for each year, a day for each year I give it to you. ⁷And toward the siege of Jerusalem you must set your face and your bared arm; then you must prophesy against it. ⁸Now^h look! I will put on you cords, and you may not turn yourself from one side to your other side until you complete the days of your siege.