MLV(i)
1 You also, son of man, take a tile and lay it before you and portray upon it a city, even Jerusalem.
2 And lay siege against it and 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 And take to you an iron pan and set it for a wall of iron between you and the city. And set your face toward it and it will be besieged and you will lay siege against it. This will be a sign to the house of Israel.
4 Moreover lie you upon your left side and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it. According to the number of the days that you will lie upon it, you will bear their iniquity. 5 For I have appointed the years of their iniquity to be a number of days to you, even three hundred and ninety days. So you will bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.
6 And again, when you have accomplished these, you will lie on your right side and will bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days, each day for a year. I have appointed it to you. 7 And you will set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, with your arm uncovered and you will prophesy against it. 8 And behold, I lay bands upon you and you will not turn from one side to the other, till you have accomplished the days of your siege.
9 Also take to you wheat and barley and beans and lentils and millet and spelt and put them in one vessel and make you bread of it, according to the number of the days that you will lie upon your side, even three hundred and ninety days, you will eat of it. 10 And your food which you will eat will be by weight, twenty shekels a day. You will eat it from time to time. 11 And you will drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin. You will drink from time to time.
12 And you will eat it as barley cakes and you will bake it in their sight with manure that comes out of man. 13 And Jehovah said, Even thus will the sons of Israel eat their bread unclean among the nations where I will drive them.
14 Then I said, Ah lord Jehovah! Behold, my soul has not been polluted. For from my youth up even till now I have not eaten of what dies of itself, or is torn of beasts, neither has abominable flesh come into my mouth. 15 Then he said to me, See, I have given you cow's manure for man's manure and you will prepare your bread of it.
16 Moreover he said to me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem and they will eat bread by weight and with fearfulness and they will drink water by measure and in dismay, 17 that they may lack bread and water and be dismayed one with another and pine away in their iniquity.
4 Moreover lie you upon your left side and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it. According to the number of the days that you will lie upon it, you will bear their iniquity. 5 For I have appointed the years of their iniquity to be a number of days to you, even three hundred and ninety days. So you will bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.
6 And again, when you have accomplished these, you will lie on your right side and will bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days, each day for a year. I have appointed it to you. 7 And you will set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, with your arm uncovered and you will prophesy against it. 8 And behold, I lay bands upon you and you will not turn from one side to the other, till you have accomplished the days of your siege.
9 Also take to you wheat and barley and beans and lentils and millet and spelt and put them in one vessel and make you bread of it, according to the number of the days that you will lie upon your side, even three hundred and ninety days, you will eat of it. 10 And your food which you will eat will be by weight, twenty shekels a day. You will eat it from time to time. 11 And you will drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin. You will drink from time to time.
12 And you will eat it as barley cakes and you will bake it in their sight with manure that comes out of man. 13 And Jehovah said, Even thus will the sons of Israel eat their bread unclean among the nations where I will drive them.
14 Then I said, Ah lord Jehovah! Behold, my soul has not been polluted. For from my youth up even till now I have not eaten of what dies of itself, or is torn of beasts, neither has abominable flesh come into my mouth. 15 Then he said to me, See, I have given you cow's manure for man's manure and you will prepare your bread of it.
16 Moreover he said to me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem and they will eat bread by weight and with fearfulness and they will drink water by measure and in dismay, 17 that they may lack bread and water and be dismayed one with another and pine away in their iniquity.