ULT EZE Chapter 4

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4 “But you, son of man, take for yourself a brick, and you shall put it before you. Then, you shall inscribe on it a city, Jerusalem. 2 Then, you shall place a siege against it, and you shall build a siege wall against it, and you shall pour out a mound against it. And you shall place camps against it, and you shall put battering rams against it, all around. 3 But you—take for yourself a griddle of iron, and you shall put it as a wall of iron, between you and between the city. Then you shall make firm your face to it, and it will be in the siege, and you shall lay siege against it. A sign is this for the house of Israel.

4 But you—lie on your left side, and you shall put the iniquity of the house of Israel on it. For the number of days that you shall lie on it, you will carry their iniquity. 5 And I myself will give to you the years of their iniquity as the number of days: 390 days. And you shall carry the iniquity of the house of Israel. 6 And when you have completed these days, then you shall lie on your right side a second time, and you shall carry the iniquity of the house of Judah: Forty days—a day for a year, a day for a year, I give to you. 7 And to the siege of Jerusalem, you shall make firm your face, and your arm bared. And you shall prophesy against it. 8 For behold! I am placing bonds on you so you will not turn from one side to the other until you have completed the days of your siege.

9 Take for yourself wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt; put them in a single container and make bread for yourself according to the number of the days that you will lie upon your side. For 390 days you will eat it. 10 The food you will eat will be by weight, twenty shekels per day, and you will eat it at set times each day. 11 Then you will drink water, measured out to a sixth of a hin, and you will drink it at set times. 12 You will eat it as barley cakes, but you will bake it on excrement of human dung within their sight!” 13 For Yahweh says, “This means that the bread that the people of Israel will eat will be unclean, there among the nations where I will banish them.” 14 But I said, “Alas, Lord Yahweh! I have never been unclean! I have never eaten either anything that died or anything killed by animals, from my youth until now, and foul meat has never entered my mouth!” 15 So he said to me, “Look! I have given you cow manure instead of human dung so you can prepare your bread over that.” 16 He also said to me, “Son of man! Behold! I am breaking the staff of bread in Jerusalem, and they will eat bread while rationing it in anxiety and drink water while rationing it in trembling. 17 Because they will lack bread and water, every man will be dismayed at his brother and waste away because of their iniquity.”

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