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Ezekiel 4 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

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The Siege of Jerusalem Symbolized

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:1 - “And you, son of man, take a brick and lay it before you, and engrave on it a city, even Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:2 - And put siegeworks against it, and build a siege wall against it, and cast up a mound against it. Set camps also against it, and plant battering rams against it all around.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:3 - And you, take an iron griddle, and place it as an iron wall between you and the city; and set your face toward it, and let it be in a state of siege, and press the siege against it. This is a sign for the house of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:4 - “Then lie on your left side, and place the punishment[fn] of the house of Israel upon it. For the number of the days that you lie on it, you shall bear their punishment.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:5 - For I assign to you a number of days, 390 days, equal to the number of the years of their punishment. So long shall you bear the punishment of the house of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:6 - And when you have completed these, you shall lie down a second time, but on your right side, and bear the punishment of the house of Judah. Forty days I assign you, a day for each year.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:7 - And you shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, with your arm bared, and you shall prophesy against the city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:8 - And behold, I will place cords upon you, so that you cannot turn from one side to the other, till you have completed the days of your siege.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:9 - “And you, take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and emmer,[fn] and put them into a single vessel and make your bread from them. During the number of days that you lie on your side, 390 days, you shall eat it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:10 - And your food that you eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels[fn] a day; from day to day[fn] you shall eat it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:11 - And water you shall drink by measure, the sixth part of a hin;[fn] from day to day you shall drink.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:12 - And you shall eat it as a barley cake, baking it in their sight on human dung.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:13 - And the LORD said, “Thus shall the people of Israel eat their bread unclean, among the nations where I will drive them.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:14 - Then I said, “Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, I have never defiled myself.[fn] From my youth up till now I have never eaten what died of itself or was torn by beasts, nor has tainted meat come into my mouth.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:15 - Then he said to me, “See, I assign to you cow’s dung instead of human dung, on which you may prepare your bread.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:16 - Moreover, he said to me, “Son of man, behold, I will break the supply[fn] of bread in Jerusalem. They shall eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and they shall drink water by measure and in dismay.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:17 - I will do this that they may lack bread and water, and look at one another in dismay, and rot away because of their punishment.
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ESV Footnotes
Or iniquity; also verses 5, 6, 17
A type of wheat
A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams
Or at a set time daily; also verse 11
A hin was about 4 quarts or 3.5 liters
Hebrew my soul (or throat) has never been made unclean
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Ezekiel Chapter 4 — Additional Translations:

King James Version New King James Version New Living Translation New International Version Christian Standard Bible New American Standard Bible 2020 New American Standard Bible 1995 Legacy Standard Bible Amplified Bible New English Translation Revised Standard Version American Standard Version Young's Literal Translation Darby Translation Webster's Bible Hebrew Names Version Latin Vulgate Westminster Leningrad Codex Septuagint Smith Van Dyck Arabic Bible Open New Arabic Version Brenton's English Septuagint Reina Valera 1909 Reina-Valera 1960 Bible in Basic English Chinese Traditional Union Espanol Moderno Korean Holy Bible Louis Segond German Luther Russian Synodal Translation Sagradas Escrituras