| 4:1 | “And you, son of man, take a brick* and set it in front of you. Inscribe* a city on it – Jerusalem. |
| 4:2 | Lay siege to it! Build siege works against it. Erect a siege ramp* against it! Post soldiers outside it* and station battering rams around it. |
| 4:3 | Then for your part take an iron frying pan* and set it up as an iron wall between you and the city. Set your face toward it. It is to be under siege; you are to besiege it. This is a sign* for the house of Israel. |
| 4:4 | “Also for your part lie on your left side and place the iniquity* of the house of Israel on it. For the number of days you lie on your side you will bear their iniquity. |
| 4:5 | I have determined that the number of the years of their iniquity are to be the number of days* for you – 390 days.* So bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.* |
| 4:6 | “When you have completed these days, then lie down a second time, but on your right side, and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah 40 days* – I have assigned one day for each year. |
| 4:7 | You must turn your face toward the siege of Jerusalem with your arm bared and prophesy against it. |
| 4:8 | Look here, I will tie you up with ropes, so you cannot turn from one side to the other until you complete the days of your siege.* |
| 4:9 | “As for you, take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt,* put them in a single container, and make food* from them for yourself. For the same number of days that you lie on your side – 390 days* – you will eat it. |
| 4:10 | The food you eat will be eight ounces* a day by weight; you must eat it at fixed* times. |
| 4:11 | And you must drink water by measure, a pint and a half;* you must drink it at fixed times. |
| 4:12 | And you must eat the food like you would a barley cake. You must bake it in front of them over a fire made with dried human excrement.”* |
| 4:13 | And the Lord said, “This is how the people of Israel will eat their unclean food among the nations* where I will banish them.” |
| 4:14 | And I said, “Ah, sovereign Lord, I have never been ceremonially defiled before. I have never eaten a carcass or an animal torn by wild beasts; from my youth up, unclean meat* has never entered my mouth.” |
| 4:15 | So he said to me, “All right then, I will substitute cow’s manure instead of human excrement. You will cook your food over it.” |
| 4:16 | Then he said to me, “Son of man, I am about to remove the bread supply* in Jerusalem.* They will eat their bread ration anxiously, and they will drink their water ration in terror |
| 4:17 | because they will lack bread and water. Each one will be terrified, and they will rot for their iniquity.* |
Ezekiel 4 - NET Bible [draft]
