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EZE 4:1–4:17 ©

Messages about Yerushalem’s destruction/Yehezkel models Yerushalem’s invasion

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Messages about Yerushalem’s destruction

(4:1–24:27)

4:1 Yehezkel models Yerushalem’s invasion

4But you, humanity’s child, get yourself a brick and place it in front of you and carve Yerushalem City on it. 2Then lay siege against it, and build forts against it. Build an assault ramp up against it and make camps around it. Place battering rams all around it. 3After that, get yourself an iron pan and use it as an iron wall between yourself and your representation of the city and keep looking in that direction, because it will be under siege and you’re to put the siege against it. That will be a sign to the Israeli people.

4Then lie on your left side and put the sin of the house of Israel on it; you will carry their sin for the number of the days that you lie down against the house of Israel. 5I myself am assigning to you one day to represent each year of their punishment: 390 days lying on your left side. In that way, you’ll carry the Israeli people’s sin. 6When that period is over, then lie down a second time on your right side, because you’ll carry the sin of Yehudah’s people for forty days. I am assigning one day to you for each year.

7Keep looking towards Yerushalem that’s under siege, and with your arm bared like a warrior, prophesy against it. 8Listen, I’ll have you tied with ropes so you won’t be able to turn from one side to the other until the days representing the years of your siege are over.

9Take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt for yourself, and put them into a single container and make bread for yourself according to the number of the days that you’ll lie upon your side—yes, you’ll eat it for 390 days. 10You’ll measure 250g by weight to eat each day, and you’ll eat it during the day at set times. 11Then you’ll measure out half a litre of water to drink each day, and you’ll drink it at set times. 12You’ll cook and eat that bread as barley cakes, but burn sun-dried human excrement to bake it over while they’re watching.

13Yahweh says that that means that the bread that the Israeli people will eat there among the other nations that I’ll banish them to will be ceremonially unclean. 14But I protested, “Oh no, master Yahweh. I’ve never broken our dietary laws. I’ve never eaten either anything that died or anything killed by animals since I was young until now, and foul meat has never entered my mouth.”

15So Yahweh answered me, “Listen, I’ll give you cow manure instead of human excrement so you can bake your bread over that.”

16Then he told me, “Humanity’s child, listen. I’m breaking the supply of food in Yerushalem, and they’ll eat bread while rationing it in anxiety, and drink water while rationing it in trembling. 17because they’ll lack both food and water, and everyone will be appalled by the actions of their neighbours and they’ll waste away because they disobeyed God.

4and_you(ms) Oh_son_of humankind take to/for_yourself(m) a_brick and_you(ms)_will_give DOM_it to_your_face and_portray on/upon_it(f) a_city DOM Yərūshālam/(Jerusalem).
2And_you(ms)_will_give on/upon_it(f) a_siege and_build on/upon_it(f) a_siege-work and_throw_up on/upon_it(f) a_mound and_you(ms)_will_give on/upon_it(f) armies and_put on/upon_it(f) battering-rams all_around.
3And_you(ms) take to/for_yourself(m) a_baking_tray_of iron and_you(ms)_will_give DOM_it a_wall_of iron between_you(ms) and_between the_city and_set DOM face_of_your to_her/it and_be in/on/at/with_siege and_besiege on/upon_it(f) will_be_a_sign it for_house_of Yisrāʼēl/(Israel).
4and_you(ms) lie_down on side_of_your the_left and_place DOM the_iniquity_of the_house_of Yisrāʼēl/(Israel) on/upon/above_him/it the_number_of the_days which you_will_lie on/upon/above_him/it you_will_bear DOM iniquity_of_their.
5And_I I_have_assigned to/for_yourself(m) DOM the_years_of iniquity_of_their according_to_number_of days three hundreds and_ninety day[s] and_bear the_iniquity_of the_house_of Yisrāʼēl/(Israel).
6And_completed DOM these and_lie_down on side_of_your the_right[fn][fn] a_second_time and_bear DOM the_iniquity_of the_house_of Yəhūdāh/(Judah) forty day[s] a_day for_the_each_year a_day for_the_each_year assigned_it to/for_you(fs).
7And_near/to the_siege_of Yərūshālam/(Jerusalem) you_will_direct face_of_your and_arm_of_your will_be_bared and_prophesy against_it.
8And_see/lo/see I_will_put on_you ropes and_not you_will_turn_yourself from_side_of_you to side_of_your until completed_you the_days_of siege_of_your.
9And_you(ms) take to/for_yourself(m) wheat(s) and_barley and_beans and_lentils and_millet and_spelt and_you(ms)_will_give DOM_them in/on/at/with_vessel one and_make DOM_them to/for_yourself(m) into_bread the_number_of the_days which you will_be_lying on side_of_your three hundreds and_ninety day[s] eat_it.
10And_food_of_your which eat_him in/on/at/with_weight will_be_twenty shekel[s] for_a_day from_time to time eat_it.
11And_water in/on/at/with_measure you_will_drink (the)_sixth the_hin from_time to time you_will_drink_it.
12And_cake_of barley(s) you(ms)_will_eat_it(f) and_she in/on/at/with_dung_of the_excrement_of the_humankind bake_it in_sight_of_their.
13and_ YHWH _he/it_said thus the_people_of they_will_eat of_Yisrāʼēl/(Israel) DOM bread_of_their unclean in/on/at/with_nations where drive_them there.
14And_said alas my_master YHWH here self_of_me not has_been_made_unclean and_what_died and_was_torn_by_animals not I_have_eaten from_youth_of_my and_unto now and_not it_has_gone in/on/at/with_mouth_of_my the_flesh_of unclean_meat.
15and_he/it_said to_me see I_give to/for_yourself(m) DOM the_dung(s)_of[fn] the_cow’s in_place_of the_dung(s)_of the_humankind and_prepare DOM bread_of_your over_which.
16and_he/it_said to_me Oh_son_of humankind see_I am_about_to_break the_staff_of bread in/on/at/with_Yərūshālam/(Jerusalem) and_eat bread in/on/at/with_weight and_in/on/at/with_anxiety and_water in/on/at/with_measure and_in/on/at/with_horror they_will_drink.
17So_that they_may_lack bread and_water and_appalled everyone and_another_of_him and_waste_away in/on/at/with_iniquity_of_their.

4:6 OSHB variant note: ה/ימיני: (x-qere) ’הַ/יְמָנִי֙’: lemma_d/3233 n_1.1.0 morph_HTd/Aamsa id_26KvW הַ/יְמָנִי֙

4:6 OSHB note: We read one or more consonants in L differently from BHS.

4:15 OSHB variant note: צפועי: (x-qere) ’צְפִיעֵ֣י’: lemma_6832 morph_HNcmpc id_267vQ צְפִיעֵ֣י

EZE 4:1–4:17 ©

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