| English Standard Version | NET Bible |
| 1“And you, son of man, take a brick and lay it before you, and engrave on it a city, even Jerusalem. | 1"And you, son of man, take a brick and set it in front of you. Inscribe a city on it--Jerusalem. |
| 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. | 2Lay siege to it! Build siege works against it. Erect a siege ramp against it! Post soldiers outside it and station battering rams around it. |
| 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. | 3Then for your part take an iron frying pan and set it up as an iron wall between you and the city. Set your face toward it. It is to be under siege; you are to besiege it. This is a sign for the house of Israel. |
| 4“Then lie on your left side, and place the punishment of the house of Israel upon it. For the number of the days that you lie on it, you shall bear their punishment. | 4"Also for your part lie on your left side and place the iniquity of the house of Israel on it. For the number of days you lie on your side you will bear their iniquity. |
| 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. | 5I have determined that the number of the years of their iniquity are to be the number of days for you--390 days. So bear the iniquity of the house of Israel. |
| 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. | 6"When you have completed these days, then lie down a second time, but on your right side, and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah 40 days--I have assigned one day for each year. |
| 7And you shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, with your arm bared, and you shall prophesy against the city. | 7You must turn your face toward the siege of Jerusalem with your arm bared and prophesy against it. |
| 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. | 8Look here, I will tie you up with ropes, so you cannot turn from one side to the other until you complete 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. | 9"As for you, take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt, put them in a single container, and make food from them for yourself. For the same number of days that you lie on your side--390 days--you will eat it. |
| 10And your food that you eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day; from day to day you shall eat it. | 10The food you eat will be eight ounces a day by weight; you must eat it at fixed times. |
| 11And water you shall drink by measure, the sixth part of a hin; from day to day you shall drink. | 11And you must drink water by measure, a pint and a half; you must drink it at fixed times. |
| 12And you shall eat it as a barley cake, baking it in their sight on human dung.” | 12And you must eat the food like you would a barley cake. You must bake it in front of them over a fire made with dried human excrement." |
| 13And the LORD said, “Thus shall the people of Israel eat their bread unclean, among the nations where I will drive them.” | 13And the LORD said, "This is how the people of Israel will eat their unclean food among the nations where I will banish them." |
| 14Then I said, “Ah, Lord GOD! 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.” | 14And I said, "Ah, sovereign LORD, I have never been ceremonially defiled before. I have never eaten a carcass or an animal torn by wild beasts; from my youth up, unclean meat has never entered my mouth." |
| 15Then he said to me, “See, I assign to you cow’s dung instead of human dung, on which you may prepare your bread.” | 15So he said to me, "All right then, I will substitute cow's manure instead of human excrement. You will cook your food over it." |
| 16Moreover, he said to me, “Son of man, behold, I will break the supply of bread in Jerusalem. They shall eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and they shall drink water by measure and in dismay. | 16Then he said to me, "Son of man, I am about to remove the bread supply in Jerusalem. They will eat their bread ration anxiously, and they will drink their water ration in terror |
| 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. | 17because they will lack bread and water. Each one will be terrified, and they will rot for their iniquity. |
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