 1 Son of man, take a tile and lay it before you and portray the city Jerusalem on it. 2 Lay siege against it and build a fort and cast a mound against it. Set the camp against it and set battering rams against it all around. 3 Take an iron griddle and set it as a wall of iron between you and the city. Set your face against it and it will be under attack and set a battle against it. This will be a sign to the house of Israel. 4 Lay on your left side and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel on it. According to the number of days that you lay on it you shall bear their iniquity. 5 For I have laid on you the years of their iniquity according to the number of the days, 390 days. So you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel. 6 When you have fulfilled them, lie again on your right side, and you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah 40 days. A day for a year. A day for a year, I have set for you. 7 You shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and your arm shall be uncovered, and you shall prophesy against it. 8 And, behold, I will lay bands on you, and you shall not turn yourself from one side to another until you have ended the days of your siege. 9 Take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt and put them in one vessel. Make bread from them for yourself. For 390 days you shall lie on your side and eat it. 10 Your food that you eat shall be 20 shekels weight a day. From time to time you shall eat it. 11 You shall also drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin. From time to time you shall drink. 12 You shall eat it as barley cakes, and you shall bake it with dung of the excrement of man, in their sight. 13 The Lord said, Even so will the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles where I will drive them. 14 Then I said, Lord God, behold. My soul has not been defiled. From my youth up even until now, I have not eaten of what dies of itself or is torn in pieces. Neither did any unclean flesh come into my mouth. 15 Then He said to me, I have given you cow's dung for man's dung and you shall prepare your bread with it. 16 He said to me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem. They will eat bread by weight and with care. They will drink water by measure and in silence. 17 They will want bread and water and be dismayed with one another and waste away in their iniquity.
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