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On it portray a city, Jerusalem; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>and put siegeworks against it, and build a siege wall against it, and cast up a ramp against it; set camps also against it, and plant battering rams against it all around. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>Then take an iron plate and place it as an iron wall between you and the city; 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.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>Then lie on your left side, and place the punishment of the house of Israel upon it; you shall bear their punishment for the number of the days that you lie there. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>For I assign to you a number of days, three hundred ninety days, equal to the number of the years of their punishment; and so you shall bear the punishment of the house of Israel. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>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, one day for each year. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>You shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and with your arm bared you shall prophesy against it. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>See, I am putting cords on you so that you cannot turn from one side to the other until you have completed the days of your siege.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>And you, take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and spelt; put them into one vessel, and make bread for yourself. During the number of days that you lie on your side, three hundred ninety days, you shall eat it. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>The food that you eat shall be twenty shekels a day by weight; at fixed times you shall eat it. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>And you shall drink water by measure, one-sixth of a hin; at fixed times you shall drink. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>You shall eat it as a barley-cake, baking it in their sight on human dung. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>The <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> said, “Thus shall the people of Israel eat their bread, unclean, among the nations to which I will drive them.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>Then I said, “Ah Lord <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">God</span>! I have never defiled myself; from my youth up until now I have never eaten what died of itself or was torn by animals, nor has carrion flesh come into my mouth.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>Then he said to me, “See, I will let you have cow’s dung instead of human dung, on which you may prepare your bread.”</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>Then he said to me, Mortal, I am going to break the staff of bread in Jerusalem; they shall eat bread by weight and with fearfulness; and they shall drink water by measure and in dismay. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>Lacking bread and water, they will look at one another in dismay, and waste away under their punishment.</span></p> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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