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Inscribe a city on it – Jerusalem. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Lay siege to it! Build siege works against it. Erect a siege ramp against it! Post soldiers outside it and station battering rams around it. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Then for your part take an iron frying pan and set it up as an iron wall between you and the city. Set your face toward it. It is to be under siege; you are to besiege it. This is a sign for the house of Israel.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>“Also for your part lie on your left side and place the iniquity of the house of Israel on it. For the number of days you lie on your side you will bear their iniquity. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>I have determined that the number of the years of their iniquity are to be the number of days for you – 390 days. So bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>“When you have completed these days, then lie down a second time, but on your right side, and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah 40 days – I have assigned one day for each year. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>You must turn your face toward the siege of Jerusalem with your arm bared and prophesy against it. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Look here, I will tie you up with ropes, so you cannot turn from one side to the other until you complete the days of your siege.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>“As for you, take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt, put them in a single container, and make food from them for yourself. For the same number of days that you lie on your side – 390 days – you will eat it. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>The food you eat will be eight ounces a day by weight; you must eat it at fixed times. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And you must drink water by measure, a pint and a half; you must drink it at fixed times. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And you must eat the food like you would a barley cake. You must bake it in front of them over a fire made with dried human excrement.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> said, “This is how the people of Israel will eat their unclean food among the nations where I will banish them.”</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And I said, “Ah, sovereign <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>, I have never been ceremonially defiled before. I have never eaten a carcass or an animal torn by wild beasts; from my youth up, unclean meat has never entered my mouth.”</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>So he said to me, “All right then, I will substitute cow’s manure instead of human excrement. You will cook your food over it.”</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Then he said to me, “Son of man, I am about to remove the bread supply in Jerusalem. They will eat their bread ration anxiously, and they will drink their water ration in terror <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/4-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>because they will lack bread and water. Each one will be terrified, and they will rot for their iniquity.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><a href="http://netbible.com/">NET Bible copyright © 1996-2006 by Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C. http://netbible.com.<br />Used by permission. 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