Ezekiel 4:1-13

Ezekiel 4:1-13

[1] Thou also, son  of man,  take  thee a tile,  and lay  it before  thee, and pourtray  upon it the city,  even Jerusalem:  [2] And lay  siege  against it, and build  a fort  against it, and cast  a mount  against it; set  the camp  also against it, and set  battering rams  against it round about.  [3] Moreover take  thou unto thee an iron  pan,  and set  it for a wall  of iron  between thee and the city:  and set  thy face  against it, and it shall be besieged,  and thou shalt lay siege  against it. This shall be a sign  to the house  of Israel.  [4] Lie  thou also upon thy left  side,  and lay  the iniquity  of the house  of Israel  upon it: according to the number  of the days  that thou shalt lie  upon it thou shalt bear  their iniquity.  [5] For I have laid  upon thee the years  of their iniquity,  according to the number  of the days,  three  hundred  and ninety  days:  so shalt thou bear  the iniquity  of the house  of Israel.  [6] And when thou hast accomplished  them,  lie  again  side,  and thou shalt bear  the iniquity  of the house  of Judah  forty  days:  I have appointed  thee each day  for a year.  [7] Therefore thou shalt set  thy face  toward the siege  of Jerusalem,  and thine arm  shall be uncovered,  and thou shalt prophesy  [8] And, behold, I will lay  bands  upon thee, and thou shalt not turn  thee from one side  till thou hast ended  the days  of thy siege.  [9] Take  thou also unto thee wheat,  and barley,  and beans,  and lentiles,  and millet,  and fitches,  and put  them in one  vessel,  and make  thee bread  thereof, according to the number  of the days  that thou shalt lie  upon thy side,  three  hundred  and ninety  days  shalt thou eat  thereof. [10] And thy meat  which thou shalt eat  shall be by weight,  twenty  shekels  a day:  from time  shalt thou eat  [11] Thou shalt drink  also water  by measure,  the sixth part  of an hin:  from time  shalt thou drink.  [12] And thou shalt eat  it as barley  cakes,  and thou shalt bake  it with dung  that cometh out  of man,  in their sight.  [13] And the LORD  said,  Even thus shall the children  of Israel  eat  their defiled  bread  among the Gentiles,  whither I will drive