"Now you son of man
, aget
yourself a brick
, place
it before
you and inscribe
a city
on it, Jerusalem
.
"Then alay siege
against
it, build
a siege
wall
, 1raise
up a ramp
, pitch
camps
and place
battering
rams
against
it all
around
.
"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
.
"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.
"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
.
"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
.
"Then you shall set your face
toward
the siege
of Jerusalem
with your arm
bared
and aprophesy
against
it.
"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
.
"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
.
"Your food which
you eat
shall be atwenty
shekels
a day
by weight
; you shall eat
it from time
to time
.
"The water you drink
shall be the sixth
part
of a hin
by measure
; you shall drink
it from time
to time
.
"You shall eat it as a barley
cake
, having baked
it in their sight
over human
adung
."
Then the LORD said
, "Thus
will the sons
of Israel
eat
their bread
aunclean
among the nations
where
I will banish
them."
But I said, " aAh
, Lord
1GOD
! Behold
, I have bnever
been
defiled
; for from my youth
until
now
I have never
eaten
what
cdied
of itself or was torn
by beasts
, nor
has any dunclean
meat
ever entered
my mouth
."
Then He said to me, "See
, I will give
you cow's
dung
in place
of human
dung
over
which you will prepare
your bread
."
Moreover, He said to me, "Son
of man
, behold
, I am going to abreak
the staff
of bread
in Jerusalem
, and they will eat
bread
by bweight
and with anxiety
, and drink
water
by cmeasure
and in horror
,
because bread
and water
will be scarce
; and they will be appalled
with one
another
and awaste
away
in their iniquity
.