Ezekiel
Ezekiel 4
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Ezekiel 4 — Scripture text (King James Version)
Thou also, , take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and pourtray upon it the city, even : 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. 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 to the house of . Lie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of upon it: according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt their iniquity. 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 the iniquity of the house of . And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again thy right side, and thou shalt the iniquity of the house of forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year. Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of , and thine arm shall be uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against it. 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. Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and 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. And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it. Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an : from time to time shalt thou drink. And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight. And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of eat their defiled bread among the , whither I will drive them. 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. Then he said unto me, Lo, I have given thee cow’s dung for man’s dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith. Moreover he said unto me, , behold, I will break the of bread in : and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment: That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.