¶ Thou also, son of man, take¹ thee a tile², and lay it before thee, and pourtray upon it the city, even³ Jerusalem:

And lay⁴ siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams⁵ against it round about.

Moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan⁶, and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city: and set thy face against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This⁷ shall be a sign to the house of Israel.

Lie thou also upon⁸ thy left side, and lay⁹ the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it: according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear¹⁰ their iniquity.

For I have¹¹ laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three¹² hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.

And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days¹³: I have appointed thee each day for a year¹⁴.

Therefore thou shalt set¹⁵ thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and thine¹⁶ arm shall be uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against it.

And, behold, I will¹⁷ lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn thee from one side to another¹⁸, till thou hast ended the days of thy siege.

¶ Take thou also unto thee wheat¹⁹, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet²⁰, and fitches²¹, 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, three²² hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.

¶²³And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it.

Thou shalt drink²⁴ also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.

And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight.

²⁶And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them.

Then said I, Ah²⁷ Lord GOD! behold, my soul²⁸ hath not been polluted: for from my youth up even till now have I²⁹ not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither came there abominable³⁰ flesh into my mouth.

Then he said unto me, Lo, I have given thee cow's dung³¹ for man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith.

Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will³² break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat³³ bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment:

That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume³⁴ away for their iniquity.