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Turning your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, with bared arm[a] you shall prophesy against it. See, I bind you with ropes so that you cannot turn from one side to the other until you have completed the days of your siege.(A)

[b]Then take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and spelt; put them into a single pot and make them into bread. Eat it for as many days as you lie upon your side, three hundred and ninety days.

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Footnotes

  1. 4:7 Bared arm: a symbol of unrestrained power.
  2. 4:9–13 This action represents the scarcity of food during the siege of Jerusalem, and the consequent need to eat whatever is at hand. Twenty shekels: about nine ounces. The sixth of a hin: about one quart.

Turn your face(A) toward the siege of Jerusalem and with bared arm prophesy against her. 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.(B)

“Take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and spelt;(C) 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.

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