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Chapter 4 |
| 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. |
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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. |
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| 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. |
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11 | Thou shalt drink also water by
measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.
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| 12 | And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung
that cometh out of man, in their sight. |
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13 | And the LORD said, Even
thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles,
whither I will drive them. |
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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:
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| 17 | That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another,
and consume away for their iniquity. |
