⁹ “Also take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt. Put them in a single container and make them into bread for yourself. You are to eat it during the number of days you lie on your side, 390 days. ¹⁰ The food you eat each day will be eight ounces^[a] by weight; you will eat it from time to time.^{[b] 11} You are also to drink water by measure, a sixth of a gallon,^[c] which you will drink from time to time. ¹² You will eat it as you would a barley cake and bake it over dried human excrement in their sight.” ¹³ The Lord said, “This is how the Israelites will eat their bread—ceremonially unclean—among the nations where I will banish them.”^(A)

¹⁴ But I said, “Oh, Lord God, I have never been defiled. From my youth until now I have not eaten anything that died naturally or was mauled by wild beasts.^(B) And impure meat has never entered my mouth.”^(C)

¹⁵ He replied to me, “Look, I will let you use cow dung instead of human excrement, and you can make your bread over that.” ¹⁶ Then He said to me, “Son of man, I am going to cut off the supply of bread in Jerusalem.^(D) They will anxiously eat bread rationed by weight and in dread drink water by measure.^{(E) 17} So they will lack bread and water; everyone will be devastated and waste away because of their iniquity.^(F)