“son of man. Take a clay tablet and lay it before you and portray on it a city Jerusalem.”
Ezekiel 4
7 of 17 verses have a reading · Berean Standard Bible
1"Now you, son of man, take a brick, place it before you, and draw on it the city of Jerusalem.
2Then lay siege against it: Construct a siege wall, build a ramp to it, set up camps against it, and place battering rams around it on all sides.
“lay siege against it build a siege wall against it heap up a mound against it set camps against it. Also in place battering rams against it all around.”
3Then take an iron plate and set it up as an iron wall between yourself and the city. Turn your face toward it so that it is under siege, and besiege it. This will be a sign to the house of Israel.
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4Then lie down on your left side and place the iniquity of the house of Israel upon yourself. You are to bear their iniquity for the number of days you lie on your side.
“Lie also upon your left side and Lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it according to the number of days. That thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their iniquity.”
5For I have assigned to you 390 days, according to the number of years of their iniquity. So you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.
“For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity according to the number of days 390 days so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel”
6When you have completed these days, lie down again, but on your right side, and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah. I have assigned to you 40 days, a day for each year.
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7You must turn your face toward the siege of Jerusalem with your arm bared, and prophesy against it.
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8Now behold, I will tie you up with ropes so you cannot turn from side to side until you have finished the days of your siege.
“and Behold, I will lay bands upon thee and thou shalt not turn thee from one side to another Till you have ended the days of the siege”
9But take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt; put them in a single container and make them into bread for yourself. This is what you are to eat during the 390 days you lie on your side.
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10You are to weigh out twenty shekels of food to eat each day, and you are to eat it at set times.
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11You are also to measure out a sixth of a hin of water to drink, and you are to drink it at set times.
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12And you shall eat the food as you would a barley cake, after you bake it over dried human excrement in the sight of the people."
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13Then the LORD said, "This is how the Israelites will eat their defiled bread among the nations to which I will banish them."
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14"Ah, Lord GOD," I said, "I have never defiled myself. From my youth until now I have not eaten anything found dead or mauled by wild beasts. No unclean meat has ever entered my mouth."
“Then said I all or God behold my soul hath not been polluted. For from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dies of itself or is torn in pieces. Neither came their abominable flesh into my mouth”
15"Look," He replied, "I will let you use cow dung instead of human excrement, and you may bake your bread over that."
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16Then He told me, "Son of man, I am going to cut off the supply of food in Jerusalem. They will anxiously eat bread rationed by weight, and in despair they will drink water by measure.
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17So they will lack food and water; they will be appalled at the sight of one another wasting away in their iniquity.
“that they May want bread and water and be astonished one with another and they will be consumed away for their iniquity.”