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| 4:1 |
'And you, O son of man, take a brick and lay it before you, and portray upon it a city, even Jerusalem;
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| 4:2 |
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 round about.
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| 4:3 |
And take an iron plate, 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.
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| 4:4 |
'Then lie upon your left side, and I will lay the punishment of the house of Israel upon you;for the number of the days that you lie upon it, you shall bear their punishment.
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| 4:5 |
For I assign to you a number of days, three hundred and ninety days, equal to the number of the years of their punishment;so long shall you bear the punishment of the house of Israel.
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| 4:6 |
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 Judah;forty days I assign you, a day for each year.
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| 4:7 |
And you shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, with your arm bared;and you shall prophesy against the city.
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| 4:8 |
And, behold, I will put cords upon you, so that you cannot turn from one side to the other, till you have completed the days of your siege.
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| 4:9 |
'And you, take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and spelt, and put them into a single vessel, and make bread of them. During the number of days that you lie upon your side, three hundred and ninety days, you shall eat it.
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| 4:10 |
And the food which you eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day;once a day you shall eat it.
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| 4:11 |
And water you shall drink by measure, the sixth part of a hin;once a day you shall drink.
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| 4:12 |
And you shall eat it as a barley cake, baking it in their sight on human dung.'
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| 4:13 |
And the LORD said, 'Thus shall the people of Israel eat their bread unclean, among the nations whither I will drive them.'
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| 4:14 |
Then 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 foul flesh come into my mouth.'
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| 4:15 |
Then he said to me, 'See, I will let you have cow's dung instead of human dung, on which you may prepare your bread.'
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| 4:16 |
Moreover he said to me, 'Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem;they shall eat bread by weight and with fearfulness;and they shall drink water by measure and in dismay.
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| 4:17 |
I will do this that they may lack bread and water, and look at one another in dismay, and waste away under their punishment.
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