Ezekiel 4
1AND thou, son of man, take thee a tile and set it before thee and portray thereon the city Jerusalem,
2and thou shalt lay siege to it and build mounds against it and throw up a circumvallation around it and pitch camps against it and arrange the towers for engines round about.
3Then take thee an iron pan and place it as an iron wall between thee and the city and set thy face against it, and it shall be besieged and thou shalt besiege it. This is a sign for the children of Israel.
4And thou shalt lie on thy left side and lay on it the iniquities of the house of Israel. According to the number of the hundred and fifty days which thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their iniquities.
5Now I have given thee their iniquities to the number of a hundred and ninety days. So when thou hast taken the iniquities of the house of Israel
6and finished them, thou shalt lie on thy right side and bear the iniquities of the house of Juda forty days. I have given thee a day for a year.
7Therefore thou shalt prepare thy face for the siege of Jerusalem and strengthen thine arm and prophesy against it.
8And behold I have given chains for thee that thou mayst not turn from one of thy sides to the other until the days of thy siege are accomplished.
9Provide, therefore, for thyself wheat and barley and beans and lentils and millet and rye, and put them into an earthen vessel and make them into loaves for thyself according to the number of the days which thou liest on thy side, to be eaten in the course of a hundred and ninety days.
10And thou shalt eat thy bread by weight, twenty shekels a day. From time to time thou shalt eat it;
11and thou shalt drink water by measure, namely the sixth of an hin to be drunk at stated times.
12And thou shalt eat the loaves baked like barley cakes on the hearth, and thou shalt bake them in their sight with a fire made of human ordure and
13shalt say, Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel, So shall the children of Israel eat impure meats among the nations.
14Upon this I said, Not so: O Lord God of Israel, seeing my soul hath not been polluted with impurity. Even from my birth to this day I have not eaten what died of itself, or was torn by wild beasts, nor hath any tainted flesh ever entered my mouth.
15Thereupon He said to me, Behold I have given thee the dung of cattle instead of human ordure that thou mayst bake thy loaves with it.
16Moreover He said to me, Son of man, behold I break the staff of bread in Jerusalem and they shall eat bread by weight and with scantiness; and they shall drink water by measure and with faintness;
17that they may be in want of bread and water and perish, one and all, and be wasted away for their iniquities.