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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Ezekiel 4 Lamsa Bible</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/ezekiel/4.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/ezekiel/4-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">Lamsa</a> > Ezekiel 4</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../ezekiel/3.htm" title="Ezekiel 3">◄</a> Ezekiel 4 <a href="../ezekiel/5.htm" title="Ezekiel 5">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Lamsa Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/ezekiel/4-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/ezekiel/4-1.htm#aramaic"><b>1</b></a></span>YOU also, O Son of man, take a brick and lay it before you, and draw upon it the outline of the city of Jerusalem; <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/ezekiel/4-2.htm#aramaic"><b>2</b></a></span>And lay siege against it, and build forts against it, and cast a mount against it; and set some camps also against it, and set battering rams against it round about. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/ezekiel/4-3.htm#aramaic"><b>3</b></a></span>Moreover take an iron pan, and set it for an iron wall between you and the city; and set your face against it, and it shall be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it. This is a sign to the house of Israel.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/ezekiel/4-4.htm#aramaic"><b>4</b></a></span>Then lie upon your left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon that side; according to the number of days that you shall lie upon it, you shall bear their iniquity. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/ezekiel/4-5.htm#aramaic"><b>5</b></a></span>For I have given you two tasks of iniquities, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days; so shall you bear the iniquity of the house of Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/ezekiel/4-6.htm#aramaic"><b>6</b></a></span>And when you have completed them, you shall lie again on your right side, and you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days; I have appointed you each day for a year. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/ezekiel/4-7.htm#aramaic"><b>7</b></a></span>Therefore you shall set your face towards the siege of Jerusalem, and your arm shall prevail, and you shall prophesy against it. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/ezekiel/4-8.htm#aramaic"><b>8</b></a></span>And behold, I have laid chains upon you, and you shall not turn from one side to another until you have completed the days of your siege.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/ezekiel/4-9.htm#aramaic"><b>9</b></a></span>And take for yourself wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and rye, and put them in one vessel, and make for yourself bread of them; according to the number of days that you shall lie upon your side, three hundred and ninety days, you shall eat of it. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/ezekiel/4-10.htm#aramaic"><b>10</b></a></span>And your food which you shall eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day; from time to time you shall eat it. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/ezekiel/4-11.htm#aramaic"><b>11</b></a></span>And you shall drink water by measure, a sixth part of a hin; from time to time shall you drink. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/ezekiel/4-12.htm#aramaic"><b>12</b></a></span>And you shall eat it as if you ate barley cakes, having baked it in their sight with the dung that comes out of men. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/ezekiel/4-13.htm#aramaic"><b>13</b></a></span>And the LORD said, Thus shall the children of Israel eat their bread unclean among the Gentiles, whither I shall drive them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/ezekiel/4-14.htm#aramaic"><b>14</b></a></span>Then said I, Ah LORD God! behold, I have never defiled myself; and from my youth up even till now I have not eaten of that which dies of itself or is torn in pieces by wild beasts; neither has unclean meat entered into my mouth. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/ezekiel/4-15.htm#aramaic"><b>15</b></a></span>Then he said to me, Lo, I have given you oxen's dung instead of men's dung, that you shall bake your bread with it. <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/ezekiel/4-16.htm#aramaic"><b>16</b></a></span>Moreover, he said to me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem; and they shall eat bread by weight; and when thirsty, they shall drink water by measure; <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/ezekiel/4-17.htm#aramaic"><b>17</b></a></span>And they shall lack bread and water, and they shall perish one with another, and shall be consumed in their iniquity.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Holy Bible From The Ancient Eastern Texts: Aramaic Of The Peshitta by George M. 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