1 « يا إنْسانُ، خُذْ لَبِنَةً وَضَعْها أمامَكَ. وَارسُمْ صُورَةَ مَدِينَةٍ تُشْبِهُ القُدْسَ عَلَيها.

“Now you son of man, get yourself a brick, place it before you and inscribe a city on it, Jerusalem.

2 ث ُمَّ أقِمْ حَواجِزَ تُرابِيَّةً حَولَها، وَأبراجَ حِصارٍ. ضَعْ حَولَها مُعَسكَراتِ، وَأحِطْها بِقاذِفاتِ حِجارَةٍ.

Then lay siege against it, build a siege wall, raise up a ramp, pitch camps and place battering rams against it all around.

3 و َخُذْ وِعاءً مِنْ صاجٍ وَضَعهُ بَينَكَ وَبَينَ المَدِينَةِ. وَبَعدَ ذَلِكَ رَكِّزِ النَّظَرَ إلَيها، فَهِيَ الآنَ تَحتَ الحِصارِ، وَأنتَ الَّذِي تُحاصِرُها. هَذِهِ عَلامَةُ تَحذِيرٍ لِبَني إسْرائِيلَ.

Then get yourself an iron plate and set it up as an iron wall between you and the city, and set your face toward it so that it is under siege, and besiege it. This is a sign to the house of Israel.

4 ث ًمَّ استَلقِ عَلَى جانِبِكَ الأيسَرِ، وَأعلِنْ خَطايا بَني إسْرائِيلَ وَالتُّهَمَ المُوَجَّهَةَ إلَيهِمْ. احمِلْ ذَنبَهُمْ طَوالَ الأيّامِ الَّتِي أنتَ مُستَلقٍ فِيها أمامَ رَسْمِ المَدِينَةِ.

“As for you, lie down on your left side and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel on it; you shall bear their iniquity for the number of days that you lie on it.

5 س َأُخبِرُكَ بِسِنِيِّ خَطِيَّتِهِمْ وَإثمِهِمْ، فَتَحمِلَ التُّهَمَ المُوَجَّهَةَ ضِدَّ بَني إسْرائِيلَ لِثَلاثِ مِئَةٍ وَتِسعِينَ يَوماً، كُلَّ يَومٍ مُقابِلَ سَنَةٍ.

For I have assigned you a number of days corresponding to the years of their iniquity, three hundred and ninety days; thus you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.

6 ب َعدَ ذَلِكَ، دُرْ فَاستَلقِ عَلَى جانِبِكَ الأيمَنِ، لِتَحمِلَ خَطايا بَنِي يَهُوذا وَالتُّهَمَ المُوَجَّهَةَ ضِدَّهُ لِأربَعِينَ يَوماً، كُلَّ يَومٍ مُقابِلَ سَنَةٍ.

When you have completed these, you shall lie down a second time, but on your right side and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah; I have assigned it to you for forty days, a day for each year.

7 ر َكِّزْ نَظَرَكَ عَلَى حِصارِ القُدْسِ، وَاكشِفْ ذِراعَكَ وَتَنَبّأْ ضِدَّها.

Then you shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem with your arm bared and prophesy against it.

8 س َأربِطُكَ بِحِبالٍ فَلا تَتَمَكَّنَ مِنْ أنْ تَتَقَلَّبَ مِنْ جَنبٍ إلَى آخَرَ حَتَّى يَكتَمِلَ وَقتُ حِصارِكَ داخِلَ الدّائِرَةِ.

Now behold, I will put ropes on you so that you cannot turn from one side to the other until you have completed the days of your siege. Defiled Bread

9 خ ُذْ بَعضَ القَمحِ وَالشَّعِيرِ وَالبُقُولِ وَالفاصُوليا وَالكِرسَنَّةِ وَالعَلَسِ وَاخلِطها مَعاً فِي وِعاءٍ واحِدٍ. وَاصنَعْ أرغِفَةً بِعَدَدِ الأيّامِ الَّتِي تَستَلقِي بِها عَلَى جَنبِكَ. سَيَكُونُ عَلَيكَ أنْ تَأكُلَ رَغِيفاً واحِداً فِي كُلِّ الثَّلاثِ مِئَةِ وَتِسعِينَ يَوماً الَّتِي فِيها سَتَستَلقِي عَلَى جَنبِكَ.

“But as for you, take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet and spelt, put them in one vessel and make them into bread for yourself; you shall eat it according to the number of the days that you lie on your side, three hundred and ninety days.

10 ل ا يَزِيدُ وَزنُ ما سَتأكُلُهُ مِنَ الخُبِزِ عَنْ عِشرِينَ مِثْقالاً كُلَّ يَومٍ، تَأكُلُها عَلى وَجَباتٍ.

Your food which you eat shall be twenty shekels a day by weight; you shall eat it from time to time.

11 ك َما سَتَشْرَبُ كَمِيَّةً مَحدُودَةً مِنَ الماءِ كُلَّ يَومٍ: سُدْسَ وِعاءٍ تَشرَبُهُ عَلَى فَتَراتٍ.

The water you drink shall be the sixth part of a hin by measure; you shall drink it from time to time.

12 ت َصنَعُ رَغِيفَ خُبزٍ كُلَّ يَومٍ أمامَ النّاسِ عَلَى فَضَلاتٍ بَشَرِيّةٍ.»

You shall eat it as a barley cake, having baked it in their sight over human dung.”

13 ث ُمَّ قالَ اللهُ: «هَكَذا سَيَأكُلُ بَنو إسْرائِيلَ خُبزَهُمْ نَجِساً بَينَ الأُمَمِ الَّذِينَ طَرَدتُهُمْ إلَيْهِمْ.»

Then the Lord said, “Thus will the sons of Israel eat their bread unclean among the nations where I will banish them.”

14 ف َقُلْتُ: «آهٍ أيُّها الرَّبُّ الإلَهُ ، لَمْ يَسبِقْ لِي أنْ تَنَجَّستُ. لَمْ آكُلْ أيَّ حَيَوانٍ مَيِّتٍ أوْ قَتَلَهُ حَيَوانٌ آخَرُ مِنْ صِغَرِي وَحَتَّى الآنَ. لَمْ يَدخُلْ طَعَامٌ نَجِسٌ فَمِي قَطّ!»

But I said, “ Ah, Lord God! Behold, I have never been defiled; for from my youth until now I have never eaten what died of itself or was torn by beasts, nor has any unclean meat ever entered my mouth.”

15 ف َقالَ لِي: «فاستَخدِمْ رَوَثَ البَقَرِ الجّافِّ بَدَلاً مِنَ الفَضَلاتِ البَشَرِيّةِ كَوُقُودٍ لِتَحْضيرِ خُبزِكَ.

Then He said to me, “See, I will give you cow’s dung in place of human dung over which you will prepare your bread.”

16 ح ِينَئِذٍ، قالَ لِي: «يا إنْسانُ، سَأُقَلِّلُ مِنْ مَؤُونَةِ الطَعَامِ فِي القُدْسِ، فَيَأكُلُونَ الخُبزَ بِمَقادِيرَ مَحدُودَةٍ، وَيَشرَبُوا الماءَ بِمَقادِيرَ مَحدُودَةٍ، وَبِصَمْتٍ مُحَيِّرٍ تَلُفُّهُ الكَآبَةُ.

Moreover, He said to me, “Son of man, behold, I am going to break the staff of bread in Jerusalem, and they will eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and drink water by measure and in horror,

17 ل أنَّ الطَعَامَ وَالماءَ سَيَكُونانِ مَحدُودَينِ. وَسَيُصعَقُ كُلُّ رَجُلٍ مِنهُمْ وَيَذُوبُ بِسَبَبِ الشَّرِّ الَّذِي صَنَعُوهُ.»

because bread and water will be scarce; and they will be appalled with one another and waste away in their iniquity.