NHEBJE - Ezekiel - 4

4:1  "You also, son of man, take a tile, and lay it before yourself, and portray on it a city, even Jerusalem:

4:2  and lay siege against it, and build forts against it, and cast up a mound against it; set camps also against it, and plant battering rams against it all around.

4:3  Take for yourself an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between you and the city: and set your face toward it, and it shall be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.

4:4  "Moreover lie on your left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel on it; according to the number of the days that you shall lie on it, you shall bear their iniquity.

4:5  For I have appointed the years of their iniquity to be to you a number of days, even three hundred ninety days: so you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.

4:6  "Again, when you have accomplished these, you shall lie on your right side, and shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah: forty days, each day for a year, have I appointed it to you.

4:7  You shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, with your arm uncovered; and you shall prophesy against it.

4:8  Behold, I lay bands on you, and you shall not turn you from one side to the other, until you have accomplished the days of your siege.

4:9  "Take for yourself also wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel, and make bread of it; according to the number of the days that you shall lie on your side, even three hundred ninety days, you shall eat of it.

4:10  Your food which you shall eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time you shall eat it.

4:11  You shall drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time to time you shall drink.

4:12  You shall eat it as barley cakes, and you shall bake it in their sight with dung that comes out of man."

4:13  Jehovah said, "Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their bread unclean, among the nations where I will drive them."

4:14  Then I said, "Ah Lord Jehovah! Behold, my soul has not been polluted; for from my youth up even until now have I not eaten of that which dies of itself, or is torn of animals; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth."

4:15  Then he said to me, "Behold, I have given you cow's dung for man's dung, and you shall prepare your bread thereon."

4:16  Moreover he said to me, "Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with fearfulness; and they shall drink water by measure, and in dismay:

4:17  that they may want bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.