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Face the city. It is under siege, and you are the one besieging it. This will be a sign to the nation of Israel.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v26_4_4"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.4.4-Ezek.4.5" class="v26_4_4">4-5</span>“Then lie down on your left side, and I<a href="#fn" id="link_Ezek.4.4-Ezek.4.5!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> will place on you the guilt of the nation of Israel. For 390 days you will stay there and suffer because of their guilt. I have sentenced you to one day for each year their punishment will last. </span><span class="v26_4_6"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.4.6" class="v26_4_6">6</span>When you finish that, turn over on your right side and suffer for the guilt of Judah for forty days—one day for each year of their punishment.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v26_4_7"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.4.7" class="v26_4_7">7</span>“Fix your eyes on the siege of Jerusalem. Shake your fist at the city and prophesy against it. </span><span class="v26_4_8"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.4.8" class="v26_4_8">8</span>I will tie you up so that you cannot turn from one side to the other until the siege is over.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v26_4_9"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.4.9" class="v26_4_9">9</span>“Now take some wheat, barley, beans, peas, millet, and spelt. Mix them all together and make bread. That is what you are to eat during the 390 days you are lying on your left side. </span><span class="v26_4_10"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.4.10" class="v26_4_10">10</span>You will be allowed eight ounces of bread a day, and it will have to last until the next day. </span><span class="v26_4_11"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.4.11" class="v26_4_11">11</span>You will also have a limited amount of water to drink, two cups a day. </span><span class="v26_4_12"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.4.12" class="v26_4_12">12</span>You are to build a fire out of dried human excrement, bake bread on the fire, and eat it where everyone can see you.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v26_4_13"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.4.13" class="v26_4_13">13</span>The <span class="nd">Lord</span> said, “This represents the way the Israelites will have to eat food which the Law forbids,<a href="#fn" id="link_Ezek.4.13!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> when I scatter them to foreign countries.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v26_4_14"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.4.14" class="v26_4_14">14</span>But I replied, “No, Sovereign <span class="nd">Lord</span>! I have never defiled myself. From childhood on I have never eaten meat from any animal that died a natural death or was killed by wild animals. I have never eaten any food considered unclean.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v26_4_15"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.4.15" class="v26_4_15">15</span>So God said, “Very well. I will let you use cow dung instead, and you can bake your bread on that.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v26_4_16"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.4.16" class="v26_4_16">16</span>And he added, “Mortal man, I am going to cut off the supply of bread for Jerusalem. The people there will be distressed and anxious as they measure out the food they eat and the water they drink. </span><span class="v26_4_17"><span class="reftext" id="Ezek.4.17" class="v26_4_17">17</span>They will run out of bread and water; they will be in despair, and they will waste away because of their sins.”</span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">4.4-5: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Probable text </char><char style="fq" closed="false">I; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew </char><char style="fq" closed="false">you.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">4.13: </char><char style="fk" closed="false">food which the Law forbids: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">The Law of Moses prohibited the eating of certain foods as being ritually unclean (see Lv 11).</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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