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以西结书 4
Chinese New Version (Traditional)
以西结书 4
Chinese New Version (Traditional)
耶路撒冷被困的象徵
4 “人子啊！你要拿一塊磚頭，放在你面前，在上面刻一座城，代表耶路撒冷。 2 然後安放圍城設施，建造圍城高牆，築起攻城土壘，擺列兵營，四周架起攻城鎚。 3 你又要拿一個鐵的煎盤，放在你和城的中間當作鐵牆。你要面向著城，象徵城要被圍困，你就是圍攻那城的。這要作以色列家的預兆。
被擄期限的象徵
4 “你要向左邊側臥，承擔以色列家的罪孽。你向左邊側臥多少日子，你擔當他們的罪孽也是多少日子。 5 我已經給你定了日子的數目，就是三百九十天，等於他們作孽的年數，你要在這些日子擔當以色列家的罪孽。 6 這些日子滿了以後，你要再向右邊側臥，擔當猶大家的罪孽，我已經給你定了四十天，一天等於一年。 7 你要面向著被圍困的耶路撒冷，赤露著膀臂，說預言攻擊這城。 8 我要用繩子把你捆綁起來，使你不能轉身，直等到你圍困城的日子滿了。
城困糧絕的象徵
9 “你要拿小麥、大麥、豆子、扁豆、粟米和粗麥，放在一個器皿裡，給自己做餅。在你側臥的三百九十天裡，你都要吃這些餅。 10 你所吃的食物要有一定分量，每天二百三十克，要在指定的時候吃。 11 你喝的水也要有一定分量，每天半公升，要在指定的時候喝。 12 你吃這些餅，要像吃烙的大麥餅一樣，但要用人糞在眾人面前燒烤。” 13 耶和華說：“以色列人在我趕他們去的列國中，也要這樣吃不潔淨的食物。” 14 我說：“主耶和華啊！我從來沒有玷污過自己。我從小到現在都沒有吃過已經死去的，或是野獸撕裂的動物，不潔淨的肉從沒有進過我的口。” 15 於是他對我說：“你看，我准你用牛糞代替人糞，你可以在牛糞上烤你的餅。” 16 他又對我說：“人子啊，我要斷絕耶路撒冷的糧食。他們要滿心憂慮，吃配給的口糧；十分驚惶，喝配給的水。 17 他們缺糧缺水，各人都必驚惶，因自己的罪孽衰弱而死。”
Ezekiel 4
EasyEnglish Bible
Ezekiel 4
EasyEnglish Bible
A message about Jerusalem
4 ‘Son of man, take a large brick and put it in front of you.[a] On the brick, draw a picture of the city, Jerusalem. 2 Show that soldiers are ready to attack the city. Build heaps of earth around it so that nobody can escape. Put heavy pieces of wood around the city that the enemy could use to break its walls. 3 Then you must do this. Take a flat plate of iron and put it between you and the brick. It will be like a wall between you and the city. Look towards the city. Show that soldiers are around the city and they are ready to attack it. Nobody can escape. This will be a picture to show Israel's people what will happen to them.[b]
4-5 Then lie down on your left side. Show that you are receiving the punishment for the sins of the Israelites. You will suffer like that for 390 days. It will show the number of years that I have decided to punish Israel's people. Each day that you suffer will show one year of their punishment.
6 After you have finished all those days, lie down again. This time, lie down on your right side for 40 days. You will suffer like that to show the punishment for the sins of Judah's people. Each day will show one year of their punishment. 7 Continue to look towards the brick which has the picture of Jerusalem on it. Show that you are ready to attack it, like soldiers all around it. Speak my message to warn the city. 8 Listen! I will use ropes to tie around you. You will not be able to turn from one side to another. You will lie on one side until you have finished all the days to attack the city.[c]
9 You must take some grains like wheat and barley, and different kinds of beans. Then put them all into a jar. Use them to make bread for yourself. You must eat this for 390 days while you lie on your left side. 10 You should eat 220 grams of food each day. Eat it at the same time each day. 11 You must measure the water that you drink each day. You may drink two cups at the same times each day. 12 Prepare your food like a cake that is made from barley. Bake it on a fire that you have made with human dung. Do this where the people can see you.’[d]
13 The Lord also said, ‘I will send Israel's people away to live in foreign lands. Then they will have to eat unclean food, as you will do now.’[e]
14 Then I said, ‘No, Almighty Lord, I could not use human dung. It would make me unclean. Since I was a child I have never eaten any food that would make me unclean. I have never eaten meat from a dead animal that people have found. I have not eaten meat from an animal that wild animals have killed.’
15 So God said to me, ‘I will allow you to use dung from cows instead of from humans. You may use that to make the fire to cook your bread.’
16 Then God said to me, ‘Son of man, I will soon take away the bread in Jerusalem. The people will have to measure the food that they eat. And they will have to measure the water that they drink. They will worry and be afraid. 17 They will not have enough food or water. Everyone will be very upset. Their bodies will become very thin when I punish them for their sins.’[f]
Footnotes
- 4:1 The people of Babylon did not have paper to write on. Instead, they made their records on bricks that were made from clay. They would write on the soft brick. Then they would bake the brick to make it hard.
- 4:3 God gave this prophecy to Ezekiel. He told Ezekiel to make a model of a city and to do certain things with it. Ezekiel did those things to show what would happen to Jerusalem.
- 4:8 This means that Ezekiel had to lie on his side for a part of each day.
- 4:12 Ezekiel did not bake the cake in an oven, but on hot stones. God told him to use human dung to make the fire to heat the stones. God's law said that would make the food unclean.
- 4:13 When God sent the Israelites away to live among foreign people, they would have to eat unclean food.
- 4:17 See Leviticus 26:26,39.
Ezekiel 4
New International Version
Ezekiel 4
New International Version
Siege of Jerusalem Symbolized
4 “Now, son of man, take a block of clay, put it in front of you and draw the city of Jerusalem on it. 2 Then lay siege to it: Erect siege works against it, build a ramp(A) up to it, set up camps against it and put battering rams around it.(B) 3 Then take an iron pan,(C) place it as an iron wall between you and the city and turn your face toward(D) it. It will be under siege, and you shall besiege it. This will be a sign(E) to the people of Israel.(F)
4 “Then lie on your left side and put the sin of the people of Israel upon yourself.[a] You are to bear their sin for the number of days you lie on your side. 5 I have assigned you the same number of days as the years of their sin. So for 390 days you will bear the sin of the people of Israel.
6 “After you have finished this, lie down again, this time on your right side, and bear the sin(G) of the people of Judah. I have assigned you 40 days, a day for each year.(H) 7 Turn your face(I) toward the siege of Jerusalem and with bared arm prophesy against her. 8 I will tie you up with ropes so that you cannot turn from one side to the other until you have finished the days of your siege.(J)
9 “Take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and spelt;(K) put them in a storage jar and use them to make bread for yourself. You are to eat it during the 390 days you lie on your side. 10 Weigh out twenty shekels[b](L) of food to eat each day and eat it at set times. 11 Also measure out a sixth of a hin[c] of water and drink it at set times.(M) 12 Eat the food as you would a loaf of barley bread; bake it in the sight of the people, using human excrement(N) for fuel.” 13 The Lord said, “In this way the people of Israel will eat defiled food among the nations where I will drive them.”(O)
14 Then I said, “Not so, Sovereign Lord!(P) I have never defiled myself. From my youth until now I have never eaten anything found dead(Q) or torn by wild animals. No impure meat has ever entered my mouth.(R)”
15 “Very well,” he said, “I will let you bake your bread over cow dung instead of human excrement.”
16 He then said to me: “Son of man, I am about to cut off(S) the food supply in Jerusalem. The people will eat rationed food in anxiety and drink rationed water in despair,(T) 17 for food and water will be scarce.(U) They will be appalled at the sight of each other and will waste away because of[d] their sin.(V)
Footnotes
- Ezekiel 4:4 Or upon your side
- Ezekiel 4:10 That is, about 8 ounces or about 230 grams
- Ezekiel 4:11 That is, about 2/3 quart or about 0.6 liter
- Ezekiel 4:17 Or away in
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