Ezekiel 4 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

The Siege of Jerusalem Symbolized

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

Eze 4:2And 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.

Eze 4:3

Eze 4:3And 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.

Eze 4:4

Eze 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.

Eze 4:5

Eze 4:5For 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.

Eze 4:6

Eze 4:6And 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.

Eze 4:7

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

Eze 4:8

Eze 4:8And 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.

Eze 4:9

Eze 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.

Eze 4:10

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

Eze 4:11

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

Eze 4:12

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

Eze 4:13

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

Eze 4:14

Eze 4:14Then 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.”

Eze 4:15

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

Eze 4:16

Eze 4:16Moreover, 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.

Eze 4:17

Eze 4:17I 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

(4:4)

Or iniquity; also verses 5, 6, 17

(4:9)

A type of wheat

(4:10)

A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams

(4:10)

Or at a set time daily; also verse 11

(4:11)

A hin was about 4 quarts or 3.5 liters

(4:14)

Hebrew my soul (or throat) has never been made unclean

(4:16)

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Ezekiel 4 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

The Siege of Jerusalem Symbolized

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