1 A nd you, son of man, take a tile and lay it before you, and make upon it a drawing of a city, even Jerusalem.

And thou, son of man, take thee a brick, and lay it before thee, and portray upon it a city,—Jerusalem:

2 A nd put siege works against it, build a siege wall against it, and cast up a mound against it; set camps also against it and set battering rams against it round about.

and lay siege against it, and build forts against it, and cast a mound against it, and set camps against it, and place battering-rams against it round about.

3 M oreover, take a plate of iron and place it for an iron wall between you and the city; and set your face toward it and it shall be besieged, and you shall press the siege against it. This is a sign to the house of Israel.

And take thou unto thee an iron plate, and put it a wall of iron between thee and the city; and set thy face against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it: this shall be a sign to the house of Israel.

4 T hen lie upon your left side to bear symbolically the iniquity of the house of the ten tribes of Israel upon that side. According to the number of days that you shall lie upon it you shall bear their iniquity.

And thou, lie upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it: the number of the days that thou liest upon it, thou shalt bear their iniquity.

5 F or I have laid upon you the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, 390 days; so you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.

And I have appointed thee the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days; and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.

6 A nd when you have fulfilled the days for Israel, lie again, but on your right side, and you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days. I have appointed you one day for each year.

And when thou hast accomplished them, thou shalt lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year.

7 T herefore you shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem and your arm shall be uncovered, and you shall prophesy against.

And thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and thine arm shall be uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against it.

8 A nd, behold, I will lay bands upon you and you shall not turn yourself from one side to another till you have ended the days of your siege.

And behold, I lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn thyself from one side to the other, till thou hast ended the days of thy siege.

9 A lso take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt, and put them into one vessel and make bread of them. According to the number of the days that you shall lie upon your side, 390 days you shall eat of it.

And thou, take unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, the number of the days that thou liest upon thy side: three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.

10 A nd the food you eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels or a full half pound a day, to be eaten at a fixed time each day.

And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it.

11 Y ou shall drink water by measure also, about one quart or the sixth part of a hin; you shall drink at a fixed time each day.

And thou shalt drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.

12 A nd you shall eat your food as barley cakes and you shall bake it with human dung as fuel in the sight of the people.

And thou shalt eat it barley-cake, and thou shalt bake it in their sight with dung that cometh out of man.

13 A nd the Lord said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the nations to whom I will drive them.

And Jehovah said, So shall the children of Israel eat their bread unclean among the nations whither I will drive them.

14 T hen said I, Ah, Lord God! Behold, I have never defiled myself. From my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dies of itself or is torn in pieces; neither did there ever come abominable flesh into my mouth.

Then said I, Ah, Lord Jehovah! behold, my soul hath not been defiled, and from my youth up even until now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or of that which is torn; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.

15 T hen He said to me, Behold, I will let you use cow’s dung instead of human dung, and you shall prepare your food with it.

And he said unto me, See, I have given thee cow's dung for man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith.

16 M oreover, He said to me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem; and they shall eat bread rationed by weight and with fearfulness, and they shall drink water rationed by measure and with dismay (silent, speechless grief caused by the impending starvation),

And he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I break the staff of bread in Jerusalem; and they shall eat bread by weight, and with anxiety; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment:

17 I n order that they may lack bread and water and look at one another in dismay and waste away for their iniquity.

because bread and water shall fail them, and they shall be astonied one with another, and waste away in their iniquity.