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.

¶ Thou also, son of man, take a tile and lay it before thee and portray upon it the city of 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 a fort against it and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set 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 an iron pan and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city; and set thy face against it and it shall be for an encompassment, and thou shalt lay siege against the city. 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.

Thou shalt sleep upon thy left side and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it; according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie 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.

For I have summed up for thee the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days; so shalt thou 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 sleep on thy right side this second time, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: a day for a year; 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.

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

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 laced bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn from one side to another until thou hast ended the days appointed thee upon thy sides.

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.

¶ Take also unto thee wheat and barley and beans and lentils and millet and fitches and put them in one vessel and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie 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 food 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.

Thou shalt also 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 barley cakes baked under the ashes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that comes out of man, in their sight.

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 the LORD said, Even thus shall the sons of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, where 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 GOD! behold, my soul is not defiled: for from my youth up even until now have I not eaten of that which dies of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither has abominable flesh come 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.

Then he said unto me, Behold, I give thee cow’s dung for man’s dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread with it.

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),

Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I break the sustenance of bread in Jerusalem; and they shall eat bread by weight, and with anguish; and they shall drink water by measure, and with terror.

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

For they shall lack bread and water, and terrorize one another, and faint because of their iniquity.