Ezekiel 4:1–12

Siege of Jerusalem Predicted

¹“Now you son of man, ^aget yourself a brick, place it before you and inscribe a city on it, Jerusalem.

²“Then ^alay siege against it, build a siege wall, ¹raise up a ramp, pitch camps and place battering rams against it all around.

³“Then get yourself an iron plate and set it up as an iron wall between you and the city, and set your face toward it so that ^ait is under siege, and besiege it. This is a ^bsign to the house of Israel.

⁴“As for you, lie down on your left side and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel on it; you shall ^abear their iniquity for the number of days that you lie on it.

⁵“For I have assigned you a number of days corresponding to the years of their iniquity, three hundred and ninety days; thus ^ayou shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.

⁶“When you have completed these, you shall lie down a second time, but on your right side and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah; I have assigned it to you for forty days, a day for ^aeach year.

⁷“Then you shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem with your arm bared and ^aprophesy against it.

⁸“Now behold, I will ^aput ropes on you so that you cannot turn from one side to the other until you have completed the days of your siege.

Defiled Bread

⁹“But as for you, take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet and ^aspelt, put them in one vessel and make them into bread for yourself; you shall eat it according to the number of the days that you lie on your side, three hundred and ninety days.

¹⁰“Your food which you eat shall be ^atwenty shekels a day by weight; you shall eat it from time to time.

¹¹“The water you drink shall be the sixth part of a hin by measure; you shall drink it from time to time.

¹²“You shall eat it as a barley cake, having baked it in their sight over human ^adung.”