Azaky'AL (Ezekiel) — 4

The Siege of Yahushalam Symbolized

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

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. 

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 Yashar'AL.

4 “Then lie on your left side, and place the punishment of the house of Yashar'AL upon it. For the number of the days that you lie on it, you shall bear their punishment. 

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 Yashar'AL. 

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 Yahudah, Forty days I assign you, a day for each year. 

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

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.

9 “And you, take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and emmer, 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. 

10 And your food that you eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day; from day to day you shall eat it. 

11 And water you shall drink by measure, the sixth part of a hin; from day to day you shall drink. 

12 And you shall eat it as a barley cake, baking it in their sight on man's dung.” 

13 And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH Dabar, “Thus shall the people of Yashar'AL eat their bread unclean, among the nations where I will drive them.” 

14 Then I said, “O 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH  Tsaba'ut! Behold, I have never defiled myself, 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.” 

15 Then 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH Dabar to me, “See, I assign to you cow's dung instead of man's dung, on which you may prepare your bread.” 

16 Moreover, 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH Dabar to me, “Son of man, behold, I will break the supply of bread in Yahushalam. They shall eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and they shall drink water by measure and in dismay. 

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.