“1 Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee,
and pourtray upon it the city, [even] Jerusalem: 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. 3
Moreover take thou unto thee 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 besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This [shall be]
a sign to the house of Israel. 4 Lie thou also 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. 5 For I have laid upon 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. 6 And when thou
hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear
the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee
each day for a year. 7 Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the
siege of Jerusalem, and thine arm [shall be] uncovered, and thou shalt
prophesy against it. 8 And, behold, I will lay bands upon thee, and thou
shalt not turn thee from one side to another, till thou hast ended the
days of thy siege.”
“9 Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles,
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. 10 And
thy meat which thou shalt eat [shall be] by weight, twenty shekels a
day: from time to time shalt thou eat it. 11 Thou shalt drink also water
by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time to time shalt thou
drink. 12 And thou shalt eat it [as] barley cakes, and thou shalt bake
it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight. 13 And the LORD
said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread
among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them. 14 Then said I, Ah Lord
GOD! behold, my soul hath not been polluted: for from my youth up even
till now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn in
pieces; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth. 15 Then he
said unto me, Lo, I have given thee cow’s dung for man’s dung, and thou
shalt prepare thy bread therewith. 16 Moreover he said unto me, Son of
man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they
shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by
measure, and with astonishment: 17 That they may want bread and water,
and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.”
(Ezekiel 4:1-17 AV)
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