Thou also,
son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before
thee, and pourtray upon it the city, even
Jerusalem:
02 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.
03 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.
04 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.
05 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.
06 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.
07 Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the
siege of Jerusalem, and thine arm shall be
uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against it.
08 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.
09 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.
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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.
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