[[Ezekiel 3|<< Ezekiel 3]] | [[Ezekiel|Ezekiel]] | [[Ezekiel 5|Ezekiel 5 >>]] ### Ezekiel 4 1 THOU also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and pourtray upon it the city, _even_ Jerusalem: ^1 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. ^2 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. ^3 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. ^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. ^5 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. ^6 7 Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and thine arm _shall_ _be_ uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against it. ^7 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. ^8 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. ^9 10 And thy meat which thou shalt eat _shall_ _be_ by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it. ^10 11 Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time to time shalt thou drink. ^11 12 And thou shalt eat it _as_ barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that comes out of man, in their sight. ^12 13 And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them. ^13 14 Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul has not been polluted: for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dies of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth. ^14 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. ^15 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: ^16 17 That they may want bread and water, and be astonished one with another, and consume away for their iniquity. ^17