Ezekiel 4

¹And you , son of man , take a brick and lay it before you, and engrave on it a city , even Jerusalem .

²And put siegeworks against it, and build a siege wall against it, and cast up a mound against it. Set camps also against it, and plant battering rams against it all around .

³And you , take an iron griddle , and place it as an iron wall between you and the city ; and set your face toward it, and let it be in a state of siege , and press the siege against it. This is a sign for the house of Israel .

⁴Then lie on your left side , and place the punishment of the house of Israel upon it. For the number of the days that you lie on it, you shall bear their punishment .

⁵For I assign to you a number of days , 390 days , equal to the number of the years of their punishment . So long shall you bear the punishment of the house of Israel .

⁶And when you have completed these , you shall lie down a second time , but on your right side , and bear the punishment of the house of Judah . Forty days I assign you, a day for each year .

⁷And you shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem , with your arm bared , and you shall prophesy against the city.

⁸And behold , I will place cords upon you, so that you cannot turn from one side to the other , till you have completed the days of your siege .

⁹And you , take wheat and barley , beans and lentils , millet and emmer , and put them into a single vessel and make your bread from them. During the number of days that you lie on your side , 390 days , you shall eat it.

¹⁰And your food that you eat shall be by weight , twenty shekels a day ; from day to day you shall eat it.

¹¹And water you shall drink by measure , the sixth part of a hin ; from day to day you shall drink .

¹²And you shall eat it as a barley cake , baking it in their sight on human dung .

¹³And the Lord said , Thus shall the people of Israel eat their bread unclean , among the nations where I will drive them.

¹⁴Then I said , Ah , Lord God! Behold , I have never defiled myself . From my youth up till now I have never eaten what died of itself or was torn by beasts, nor has tainted meat come into my mouth .

¹⁵Then he said to me, See , I assign to you cow’s dung instead of human dung , on which you may prepare your bread .

¹⁶Moreover, he said to me, Son of man , behold , I will break the supply of bread in Jerusalem . They shall eat bread by weight and with anxiety , and they shall drink water by measure and in dismay .

¹⁷I will do this that they may lack bread and water , and look at one another in dismay , and rot away because of their punishment .