King James VersionEzekiel4

Ezekiel

1 Thou al­so, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it be­fore thee, and pour­tray upon it the city, even Jerusalem: 2 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. 3 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. 4 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. 5 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. 6 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. 7 There­fore thou shalt set thy face to­ward the siege of Jerusalem, and thine arm shall be un­cov­ered, and thou shalt proph­esy against it. 8 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. 9 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. 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.