1You also, son of Adam, take you a tile, and lay it before you, and pourtray upon it the city, even Jerusalem:
2And 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.
3Moreover take you unto you an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between you and the city: and set your face against it, and it shall be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Yashar'el (Israel).
4Lie you also upon your left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Yashar'el (Israel) upon it: according to the number of the days that you shall lie upon it you shall bear their iniquity.
5For I have laid upon you the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days: so shall you bear the iniquity of the house of Yashar'el (Israel).
6And when you have accomplished them, lie again on your right side, and you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Yahudah (Judah) forty days: I have appointed you each day for a year.
7Therefore you shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and your arm shall be uncovered, and you shall prophesy against it.
8And, behold, I will lay bands upon you, and you shall not turn you from one side to another, till you have ended the days of your siege.
9Take you also unto you wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make you bread thereof, according to the number of the days that you shall lie upon your side, three hundred and ninety days shall you eat thereof.
10And your meat which you shall eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shall you eat it.
11You shall drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time to time shall you drink.
12And you shall eat it as barley cakes, and you shall bake it with dung that comes out of man, in their sight.
13And Yahuah (LORD) said, Even thus shall the children of Yashar'el (Israel) eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them.
14Then said I, Ah Adonai (Lord) GOD! behold, my soul has not been polluted: for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dies of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.
15Then he said unto me, Lo, I have given you cow’s dung for man’s dung, and you shall prepare your bread therewith.
16Moreover he said unto me, Son of Adam, 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:
17That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.