Jubilee2000 - Ezekiel - 4

4:1  Thou also, son of man, take a tile and lay it before thee and portray upon it the city of Jerusalem

4:2  and lay siege against it and build a fort against it and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set [battering] rams against it round about.

4:3  And take an iron pan and set it [for] a wall of iron between thee and the city; and set thy face against it and it shall be for an encompassment, and thou shalt lay siege against the [city]. This [shall be] a sign to the house of Israel.

4:4  Thou shalt sleep upon 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 bear their iniquity.

4:5  For I have summed up [for] thee the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days; so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.

4:6  And when thou hast accomplished them, thou shalt sleep on thy right side [this] second time, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: [a] day for [a] year; I have appointed thee [each] day for [a] year.

4:7  Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and thine arm [shall be] uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against her.

4:8  And, behold, I laced bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn from one side to another until thou hast ended the days [appointed thee] upon thy sides.

4:9  Take also unto thee wheat and barley and beans and lentils and millet and fitches and put them in one vessel and make thee bread thereof, [according] to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.

4:10  And thy food which thou shalt eat [shall be] by weight, twenty shekels a day; from time to time shalt thou eat it.

4:11  Thou shalt also drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin; from time to time shalt thou drink.

4:12  And thou shalt eat barley cakes baked under the ashes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that comes out of man, in their sight.

4:13  And the LORD said, Even thus shall the sons of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, where I will drive them.

4:14  Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul is not defiled: for from my youth up even until now have I not eaten of that which dies of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither has abominable flesh come into my mouth.

4:15  Then he said unto me, Behold, I give thee cow's dung for man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread with it.

4:16  Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I break the sustenance of bread in Jerusalem; and they shall eat bread by weight, and with anguish; and they shall drink water by measure, and with terror.

4:17  For they shall lack bread and water, and terrorize one another, and faint because of their iniquity.: