| 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. |
| 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. |
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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. |
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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. |
| 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: |
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17 | That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with
another, and consume away for their iniquity. |
