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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 ESV</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="../">ESV</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 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">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/ezekiel/4.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">The Siege of Jerusalem Symbolized</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/4-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>“And you, son of man, take a brick and lay it before you, and engrave on it a city, even Jerusalem. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/4-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And put siegeworks against it, and build a siege wall against it, and cast up a mound against it. Set camps also against it, and plant battering rams against it all around. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/4-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And you, take an iron griddle, and place it as an iron wall between you and the city; and set your face toward it, and let it be in a state of siege, and press the siege against it. This is a sign for the house of Israel.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>“Then lie on your left side, and place the punishment<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or iniquity; also verses 5, 6, 17">a</a></sup></span> of the house of Israel upon it. For the number of the days that you lie on it, you shall bear their punishment. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>For I assign to you a number of days, 390 days, equal to the number of the years of their punishment. So long shall you bear the punishment of the house of Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And when you have completed these, you shall lie down a second time, but on your right side, and bear the punishment of the house of Judah. Forty days I assign you, a day for each year. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And you shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, with your arm bared, and you shall prophesy against the city. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And behold, I will place cords upon you, so that you cannot turn from one side to the other, till you have completed the days of your siege.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>“And you, take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and emmer,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="A type of wheat">b</a></sup></span> and put them into a single vessel and make your bread from them. During the number of days that you lie on your side, 390 days, you shall eat it. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And your food that you eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams">c</a></sup></span> a day; from day to day<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or at a set time daily; also verse 11">d</a></sup></span> you shall eat it. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And water you shall drink by measure, the sixth part of a hin;<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="A hin was about 4 quarts or 3.5 liters">e</a></sup></span> from day to day you shall drink. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And you shall eat it as a barley cake, baking it in their sight on human dung.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said, “Thus shall the people of Israel eat their bread unclean, among the nations where I will drive them.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Then I said, “Ah, Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span>! Behold, I have never defiled myself.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew my soul (or throat) has never been made unclean">f</a></sup></span> From my youth up till now I have never eaten what died of itself or was torn by beasts, nor has tainted meat come into my mouth.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Then he said to me, “See, I assign to you cow’s dung instead of human dung, on which you may prepare your bread.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Moreover, he said to me, “Son of man, behold, I will break the supply<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew staff">g</a></sup></span> of bread in Jerusalem. They shall eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and they shall drink water by measure and in dismay. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/4-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>I will do this that they may lack bread and water, and look at one another in dismay, and rot away because of their punishment.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">4</span> Or <i>iniquity</i>; also verses 5, 6, 17<br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">9</span> A type of wheat<br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">10</span> A <i class="catch-word-plural">shekel</i> was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams<br /><span class="footnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">10</span> Or <i>at a set time daily</i>; also verse 11<br /><span class="footnotesbot">e</span> <span class="fnverse">11</span> A <i class="catch-word">hin</i> was about 4 quarts or 3.5 liters<br /><span class="footnotesbot">f</span> <span class="fnverse">14</span> Hebrew <i>my soul</i> (or <i>throat</i>) <i>has never been made unclean</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">g</span> <span class="fnverse">16</span> Hebrew <i>staff</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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