Ezekiel 4:9-17
Lexham English Bible
Ezekiel’s Strange Defiled Meal
9 “And you, take for yourself[a] wheat and barley and beans and lentils and millet[b] and spelt, and you must put them in one vessel, and you must make them for yourself[c] into a food during the number of days that you are lying on your side; three hundred and ninety days you shall eat it. 10 And your food that you will eat[d] will be according to weight; twenty shekels for each day at fixed times[e] you shall eat it. 11 And an amount of water[f] you shall drink, a sixth of a hin; at fixed times[g] you shall drink it. 12 And as a bread-cake of barley you shall eat it, and with human excrement[h] you shall bake it before their eyes.” 13 And Yahweh said, “Thus shall the Israelites[i] eat their unclean food among the nations where I will scatter them.”[j] 14 And I said, “Ah, Lord Yahweh! Look! I have not been defiling myself, and a dead body and mangled carcass I have not eaten from my childhood until now, and unclean meat[k] has not come into my mouth!” 15 And he said to me, “See I will give you cattle manure[l] in the place of the feces of a human, and you may prepare your food on it.” 16 And he said to me, “Son of man,[m] look, I am going to break the supply[n] of bread in Jerusalem, and they will eat bread by weight, anxiously,[o] and rationed water,[p] and they will drink with horror, 17 so that they will lack food and water, and they will be appalled with one another,[q] and they will waste away because of their guilt.[r]
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- Ezekiel 4:9 Hebrew “you”
- Ezekiel 4:9 Or “sorghum”
- Ezekiel 4:9 Hebrew “you”
- Ezekiel 4:10 Hebrew “will eat it”
- Ezekiel 4:10 Literally “from time to time”
- Ezekiel 4:11 Literally “water by amount”
- Ezekiel 4:11 Literally “from time to time”
- Ezekiel 4:12 Literally “with human dung of the excrement of the human”
- Ezekiel 4:13 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
- Ezekiel 4:13 Literally “which I will scatter them there”
- Ezekiel 4:14 Literally “flesh of unclean meat”
- Ezekiel 4:15 Literally “the manure of cattle”
- Ezekiel 4:16 Or “mortal,” or “son of humankind”
- Ezekiel 4:16 Literally “staff”
- Ezekiel 4:16 Literally “and with worry”
- Ezekiel 4:16 Literally “and water by amount”
- Ezekiel 4:17 Literally “a man and his brother”
- Ezekiel 4:17 Or “punishment”
Ezekiel 4:9-17
King James Version
9 Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put 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.
10 And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it.
11 Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.
12 And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight.
13 And the Lord said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them.
14 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.
15 Then he said unto me, Lo, I have given thee cow's dung for man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith.
16 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, 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:
17 That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.
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