Ezekiel 4

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(Eze 4:1) Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and pourtray upon it the city, {even} Jerusalem:
(Eze 4:2) 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.
(Eze 4:3) 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.
(Eze 4:4) 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.
(Eze 4:5) 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.
(Eze 4:6) 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.
(Eze 4:7) Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and thine arm {shall be} uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against it.
(Eze 4:8) 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.
(Eze 4:9) 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.
(Eze 4:10) And thy meat which thou shalt eat {shall be} by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it.
(Eze 4:11) Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.
(Eze 4:12) And thou shalt eat it {as} barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight.
(Eze 4:13) And the Lord said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them.
(Eze 4:14) 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.
(Eze 4:15) Then he said unto me, Lo, I have given thee cow's dung for man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith.
(Eze 4:16) 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:
(Eze 4:17) That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.
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