Ezekiel 4
The Siege of Jerusalem
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Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile,
and lay it before thee, and portray upon it the city, even Jerusalem:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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And when thou hast accomplished them, lie
again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the
house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a
year.
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Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward
the siege of Jerusalem, and thine arm shall be uncovered, and
thou shalt prophesy against it.
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And, behold, I will lay bands upon thee,
and thou shalt not turn thee from one side to another, till thou
hast ended the days of thy siege.
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Take thou also unto thee wheat, and
barley, and beans, and lentils, 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.
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And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time
shalt thou eat it.
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Thou shalt drink also water by measure,
the sixth part of a hin: from time to time shalt thou
drink.
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And thou shalt eat it as barley
cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in
their sight.
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And the LORD said,
Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among
the Gentiles, whither I will drive them.
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Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul hath not been polluted: for from
my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dieth of
itself, or is torn in pieces; neither came there abominable flesh
into my mouth.
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Then he said unto me, Lo, I have given
thee cow's dung for man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread
therewith.
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Moreover he said unto me, Son of man,
behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall
eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by
measure, and with astonishment:
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that they may want bread and water, and
be astonished one with another, and consume away for their
iniquity.
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