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The Prophecy
of Ezechiel 4
And thou, O son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it
before thee: and draw upon it the plan of the city of
Jerusalem.
And lay siege against it, and build forts, and cast
up a mount, and set a camp against it, and place battering
rams round about it.
And take unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall
of iron between thee and the city: and set thy face
resolutely against it, and it shall be besieged, and
thou shalt lay siege against it: it is a sign to the
house of Israel.
And thou shalt sleep upon thy left side, and shalt lay
the iniquities of the house of Israel upon it, according
to the number of the days that thou shalt sleep upon
it, and thou shalt take upon thee their iniquity.
And I have laid upon 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.
And when thou hast accomplished this, thou shalt sleep
again upon thy right side, and thou shalt take upon
thee the iniquity of the house of Juda forty days: a
day for it year, yea, a day for a year I have appointed
to thee.
And thou shalt turn thy face to the siege of Jerusalem,
and thy arm shall be stretched out: and thou shalt prophesy
against it.
Behold I have encompassed thee with bands: and thou
shalt not turn thyself from one side to the other, till
thou hast ended the days of thy siege.
And take to 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.
And thy meat that thou shalt eat, shall be in weight
twenty staters a day: from time to time thou shalt eat
it.
And thou shalt drink water by measure, the sixth part
of a hin: from time to time thou shalt drink it,
And thou shalt eat it as barley bread baked under the
ashes: and thou shalt cover it, in their sight, with
the dung that cometh out of a man.
And the Lord said: So shall the children of Israel Beat
their bread all filthy among the nations whither I will
cast them out.
And I said: Ah, ah, ah, O Lord God, behold my soul hath
not been defiled, and from my infancy even till now,
I have not eaten any thing that died of itself, or was
torn by beasts, and no unclean flesh hath entered into
my mouth.
And he said to me: Behold I have given thee neat's dung
for man's dung, and thou shalt make thy bread therewith.
And he said to me: Son of man: Behold, I will break
in pieces the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they
shall eat bread by weight, and with care: and they shall
drink water by measure, and in distress.
So that when bread and water fail, every man may fall
against his brother, and they may pine away in their
iniquities.
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