1And you, son of man, take a brick for yourself, place it before you, and engrave a city on it, namely Jerusalem.2And you shall lay siege to it, build a ramp against it, raise a mound against it, set up camps against it, and set up siegeworks against it all around.3And you, take for yourself an iron griddle, and you shall place it as an iron wall between you and the city. And you shall set your face toward it, and it shall be in siege, and you shall besiege it. It is a sign for the house of Israel.4And you, lie down on your left side and place the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it. According to the number of the days that you lie down upon it, you shall bear their iniquity.5And I, I have given you their two iniquities for the number of days, three hundred and ninety days; and you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.6And you will complete these, and you will lie on your right side a second time, and you will bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days, day for a year, day for a year. I have given it to you.7You shall direct your face and bare your arm toward the siege of Jerusalem, and you shall prophesy against it.8Behold, I have put ropes on you, and you shall not turn from one side to the other until you have completed the days of your siege.9And you, take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and spelt for yourself, and put them in one vessel, and make them into bread for the number of the days that you lie on your side, three hundred and ninety days. You shall eat it.10And your food that you will eat—twenty shekels a day by weight; from time to time you will eat it.11And you shall drink water by measure: a sixth of the hin, from time to time.12You shall eat a cake of barley, and it shall be kneaded in human excrement before their eyes.13And the LORD said, "In this way the sons of Israel will eat their bread unclean among the nations where I will drive them."14And I said, "Ah, Lord the LORD! Behold, my soul has not been defiled, and I have not eaten an impure carcass or a torn animal from my youth until now, and no unclean meat has entered my mouth."15And he said to me, "See, I have given you cow dung instead of human dung, and you shall make your bread on it."16And he said to me, "Son of Adam, here I am breaking the staff of bread in Jerusalem, and they will eat bread by weight and in anxiety, and they will drink water by ration and in horror."17so that they lack bread and water, and man and his brother pine away, and they waste away in their iniquity.
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Chapter 5
1And you, son of man, take for yourself a sharp sword, a barber's razor. You shall take it and pass it over your head and over your beard. And you shall take scales of weight and divide them.2A third you will burn with fire in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled. And you will take the third—you will strike it with the sword around it—and the third you will scatter to the wind; I will draw the sword after them.3You shall take a few in number from there and wrap them in your wings.4Then you shall take some of them and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire. From it a fire will come out against the whole house of Israel.5Thus says the Lord GOD: This is Jerusalem. I have set her in the midst of the nations and lands surrounding her.6And she has rebelled against my decrees more wickedly than the nations and against my statutes more than the lands around her, for they have rejected my decrees and have not walked in my statutes.7Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD: Because you have been more rebellious than the nations that are around you, you have not walked in my statutes, and you have not done my judgments, and you have not done as the judgments of the nations that are around you.8Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against you also, and I will execute judgments in your midst in the sight of the nations.9And I will do in you what I have not done and will not do again because of all your abominations.10Therefore fathers will eat their sons in your midst, and sons will eat their fathers, and I will scatter your remnant to every wind.11Therefore, as I live, says the Lord GOD, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your abominations and with all your detestable things, I will also withhold, and my eye will not spare, and I will also not pity.12A third of you will die by pestilence and be consumed by famine in your midst, a third will fall by the sword around you, and a third I will scatter to every wind, and I will unsheathe a sword after them.13And I will finish my anger, and I will cause my wrath to rest on them, and I will be comforted. And they will know that I, the LORD, have spoken in my jealousy, in finishing my wrath on them.14And I will make you a ruin and a reproach among the nations that are around you, before the eyes of every passerby.15And it will be a reproach and a taunt, a discipline and a desolation, to the nations that are around you, when I bring judgments upon you in anger and in wrath and in rebukes of wrath—I, the LORD, have spoken.16When I send the arrows of famine against you, the evil arrows that are for destruction, which I will send to destroy you, I will increase famine against you and break your staff of bread for you.17And I will send famine and evil wild animals upon you, and I will bereave you. Pestilence and blood will pass through you, and I will bring the sword upon you. I, the LORD, have spoken.