EZEKIEL 4 [†]“And you,  r son of man,  s take a brick and lay it before you, and engrave on it a city, even Jerusalem. 2 t And put siegeworks against it,  u and build a siege wall against it,  v and cast up a mound against it. Set camps also against it,  w and plant battering rams against it all around. 3[†]And you, take an iron griddle, and place it as an iron wall between you and the city;  x and set your face toward it,  y and let it be in a state of siege, and press the siege against it. This is  z a sign for the house of Israel.

4[^][†]“Then lie on your left side, and place the punishment [1] of the house of Israel upon it. For the number of the days that you lie on it,  a you shall bear their punishment. 5For I assign to you a number of days,  b 390 days,  c equal to the number of the years of their punishment.  a So long shall you bear  d the punishment of the house of Israel. 6And when you have completed these, you shall lie down a second time, but on your right side, and  e bear  f the punishment of the house of Judah.  g Forty days I assign you, a day for each year. 7[†] h And you shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem,  i with your arm bared, and you shall prophesy against the city. 8[†]And behold,  j I will place cords upon you, so that you cannot turn from one side to the other, till you have completed  k the days of your siege.

9[†]“And you, take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and emmer, [2] and put them into a single vessel and make your  l bread from them.  m During the number of days that you lie on your side,  n 390 days, you shall eat it. 10[†]And your food that you eat shall be  o by weight,  p twenty shekels [3] a day; from day to day [4] you shall eat it. 11[†]And water you shall drink  o by measure, the sixth part of a hin; [5] from day to day you shall drink. 12[†]And you shall eat it as a barley cake, baking it  q in their sight on human dung.” 13And the LORD said, “Thus shall the people of Israel eat  r their bread unclean, among the nations where I will drive them.” 14Then I said,  s “Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, I have never defiled myself. [6]  t From my youth up till now I have never eaten  u what died of itself or was torn by beasts, nor has  v tainted meat come into my mouth.” 15Then he said to me, “See, I assign to you cow’s dung instead of human dung, on which you may prepare your bread.” 16[†]Moreover, he said to me,  w “Son of man, behold,  x I will break the supply [7] of bread in Jerusalem. They shall eat bread  o by weight and with anxiety, and they shall drink water  o by measure and in dismay. 17[†]I will do this that they may lack bread and water, and  y look at one another in dismay, and  z rot away because of their punishment.