The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Ezekiel 04
1 “You also, sonofman,take a tile, andlay
it before yourself, and portray on it a city,
even Jerusalem.
2 Lay siege against it, build forts against
it, and cast up a mound against it. Also set
camps against it and plant battering rams
against it all around.
3 Take for yourself an iron pan and set
it for a wall of iron between you and the
city. Then set your face toward it. It will be
besieged, and you shall lay siege against it.
This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.
4 “Moreover lie on your left side, and
lay the iniquity of the house of Israel on
it. According to the number of the days
that you shall lie on it, you shall bear their
iniquity.
5 For I have appointed the years of their
iniquity to be to you a number of days,
even three hundred ninety days. So you
shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.
6 “Again, when you have accomplished
these, you shall lie on your right side, and
shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah.
I have appointed forty days, each day
for a year, to you.
7 You shall set your face toward the siege
of Jerusalem, with your arm uncovered;
and you shall prophesy against it.
8 Behold, I put ropes on you, and you
shall not turn yourself from one side to
the other, until you have accomplished the
days of your siege.
9 “Take for yourself also wheat, barley,
beans, lentils, millet, and spelt, and put
them in one vessel. Make bread of it.
According to the number of the days that you
will lie on your side, even three hundred
ninety days, you shall eat of it.
10 Your food which you shall eat shall be
by weight, twenty shekels† a day. From
time to time you shall eat it.
11 You shall drink water by measure, the
sixth part of a hin.‡ From time to time you
shall drink.
12 You shall eatit asbarley cakes, andyou
shall bake it in their sight with dung that
comes out of man.”
13 Yahweh said, “Even thus will the children
of Israel eat their bread unclean,
among the nations where I will drive
them.”
14 Then I said, “Ah Lord Yahweh! Behold,
my soul has not been polluted;for from my
youth up even until now I have not eaten
of that which dies of itself, or is torn of
animals. No abominable meat has come
into my mouth!”
15 Then he said to me, “Behold, I have
given you cow’s dung for man’s dung, and
you shall prepare your bread on it.”
16 Moreover he said to me, “Son of man,
behold, I will break the staff of bread in
Jerusalem. They will eat bread by weight,
and with fearfulness. They will drink water
by measure, and in dismay;
17 that they may lack bread and water,
be dismayed one with another, and pine
away in their iniquity.
and with all your abominations, therefore
I will also diminish you. My eye won’t
spare, and I will have no pity.