Ezekiel Chapter 4

Ezekiel 4:1: “Now, son of man, take a brick and place it before you. Inscribe a city on it, Jerusalem.”
Ezekiel 4:2: “Then lay siege against it: build a siege wall, raise up a ramp, pitch camps, and place battering rams against it all around.”
Ezekiel 4:3: “Then take an iron griddle and place it as an iron wall between you and the city. Set your face toward it, and it will be under siege, and you shall lay siege against it. This will be a sign to the house of Israel.”
Ezekiel 4:4: “Then lie on your left side and place the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it. You shall bear their iniquity for the number of days that you lie on it.”
Ezekiel 4:5: “For I have assigned to you the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days, so you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.”
Ezekiel 4:6: “When you have completed these, you shall lie down a second time, but on your right side, and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah. Forty days I assign you, a day for each year.”
Ezekiel 4:7: “You shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem with your arm bared, and prophesy against it.”
Ezekiel 4:8: “Behold, I will place cords upon you, so that you cannot turn from one side to the other until you have completed the days of your siege.”
Ezekiel 4:9: “And you, take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and spelt; put them into one vessel and make bread for yourself. During the number of days that you lie on your side, 390 days, you shall eat it.”
Ezekiel 4:10: “And your food which you shall eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day; from day to day you shall eat it.”
Ezekiel 4:11: “And water you shall drink by measure, the sixth part of a hin; from day to day you shall drink.”
Ezekiel 4:12: “And you shall eat it as a barley cake, baking it in their sight on human dung.”
Ezekiel 4:13: “And the Lord said, ‘So shall the people of Israel eat their bread unclean, among the nations where I will drive them.'”
Ezekiel 4:14: “Then I said, ‘Ah, Lord God! Behold, I have never defiled myself. From my youth up until now I have never eaten what died of itself or was torn by beasts, nor has tainted meat come into my mouth.'”
Ezekiel 4:15: “Then he said to me, ‘See, I will give you cow’s dung instead of human dung, on which you may prepare your bread.'”
Ezekiel 4:16: “Moreover, he said to me, ‘Son of man, behold, I will break the supply of bread in Jerusalem. They shall eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and drink water by measure and in dismay.'”
Ezekiel 4:17: “I will do this so that they may lack bread and water, and be in dismay with one another, and waste away because of their iniquity.”