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
International Standard Version
Ezekiel’s Menu
9 “Furthermore, you are to take some wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt, and mix them together in one container. Then you are to make bread from these grains sufficient to supply you through the time during which you’ll be sleeping on your side. You are to eat it for 390 days. 10 The food that you’ll be eating is to consist of portions weighing 20 shekels,[a] to be consumed daily at regular intervals.[b] 11 You are to measure one sixth of one hin[c] of water each time you drink it. 12 You are to eat it as barley cakes and bake it right in front of them, using dried human dung for cooking fuel.”[d]
13 Then the Lord said, “This is how the Israelis will be eating unclean food among the nations, where I’ll be sending them.”
14 “Now, Lord God,” I replied, “I’ve never been defiled, ever since I was young until now. I haven’t eaten an animal that died on its own or was torn by beasts, and no unclean meat has ever entered my mouth!”
15 “Very well,” he responded. “I’ll allow you to substitute cow’s dung for human dung. Cook your food[e] over that.”
16 He also told me, “Son of Man, look! I’m about to disrupt the source[f] of bread in Jerusalem. As a result, they’ll ration bread by weight while their terror continues to grow and they’ll ration drinking water while their horror continues to mount! 17 Indeed, they’ll need bread and water, but everyone will be panic-stricken as they waste away in their iniquity.”
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- Ezekiel 4:10 I.e. about eight ounces; a shekel weighed about 0.4 ounces
- Ezekiel 4:10 Lit. it from time to time
- Ezekiel 4:11 I.e. about a pint and a half
- Ezekiel 4:12 The Heb. lacks for cooking fuel
- Ezekiel 4:15 Lit. bread
- Ezekiel 4:16 Lit. staff
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