Ezekiel 4:3-13

New American Standard Bible

³ Then get yourself an iron plate and set it up as an iron wall between yourself and the city, and direct your face toward it so that ^(A)it is under siege, and besiege it. This will be a ^(B)sign to the house of Israel.

⁴ “Then you are to lie down on your left side and put the wrongdoing of the house of Israel on it; you shall ^(C)bear their wrongdoing for the number of days that you lie on it. ⁵ For I have assigned you a number of days corresponding to the years of their wrongdoing, 390 days; so ^(D)you shall bear the wrongdoing of the house of Israel. ⁶ When you have completed these days, you shall lie down a second time, but on your right side, and bear the wrongdoing of the house of Judah; I have assigned it to you for forty days, a day for ^(E)each year. ⁷ Then you shall direct your face toward the siege of Jerusalem with your arm bared, and ^(F)prophesy against it. ⁸ Now behold, I will ^(G)put ropes ^[a]around you so that you cannot turn from your one side to your other until you have completed the days of your siege.

Defiled Bread

⁹ “But as for you, take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and ^(H)spelt, and put them in one vessel and make them into bread for yourself; you shall eat it according to the number of the days that you lie on your side, 390 days. ¹⁰ Your food which you eat shall be ^(I)twenty shekels a day by weight; you shall eat it from time to time. ¹¹ The water you drink shall be a ^[b]sixth of a hin by measure; you shall drink it from time to time. ¹² You shall eat it as a barley cake, having baked it in their sight over human ^(J)dung.” ¹³ Then the Lord said, “In this way the sons of Israel will eat their bread ^(K)unclean among the nations where I will scatter them.”