Ezekiel 4:9-17

English Standard Version

⁹ “And you, take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and emmer,^[a] and put them into a single vessel and make your ^(A)bread from them. ^(B)During the number of days that you lie on your side, ^(C)390 days, you shall eat it. ¹⁰ And your food that you eat shall be ^(D)by weight, ^(E)twenty shekels^[b] a day; from day to day^[c] you shall eat it. ¹¹ And water you shall drink ^(F)by measure, the sixth part of a hin;^[d] from day to day you shall drink. ¹² And you shall eat it as a barley cake, baking it ^(G)in their sight on human dung.” ¹³ And the Lord said, “Thus shall the people of Israel eat ^(H)their bread unclean, among the nations where I will drive them.” ¹⁴ Then I said, ^(I)“Ah, Lord God! Behold, I have never defiled myself.^{[e] (J)}From my youth up till now I have never eaten ^(K)what died of itself or was torn by beasts, nor has ^(L)tainted meat come into my mouth.” ¹⁵ Then he said to me, “See, I assign to you cow's dung instead of human dung, on which you may prepare your bread.” ¹⁶ Moreover, he said to me, ^(M)“Son of man, behold, ^(N)I will break the supply^[f] of bread in Jerusalem. They shall eat bread ^(O)by weight and with anxiety, and they shall drink water ^(P)by measure and in dismay. ¹⁷ I will do this that they may lack bread and water, and ^(Q)look at one another in dismay, and ^(R)rot away because of their punishment.