| NET Bible | New Living Translation |
| 1"And you, son of man, take a brick and set it in front of you. Inscribe a city on it--Jerusalem. | 1“And now, son of man, take a large clay brick and set it down in front of you. Then draw a map of the city of Jerusalem on it. |
| 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. | 2Show the city under siege. Build a wall around it so no one can escape. Set up the enemy camp, and surround the city with siege ramps and battering rams. |
| 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. | 3Then take an iron griddle and place it between you and the city. Turn toward the city and demonstrate how harsh the siege will be against Jerusalem. This will be a warning to the people of Israel. |
| 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. | 4“Now lie on your left side and place the sins of Israel on yourself. You are to bear their sins for the number of days you lie there on your side. |
| 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. | 5I am requiring you to bear Israel’s sins for 390 days—one day for each year of their sin. |
| 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. | 6After that, turn over and lie on your right side for 40 days—one day for each year of Judah’s sin. |
| 7You must turn your face toward the siege of Jerusalem with your arm bared and prophesy against it. | 7“Meanwhile, keep staring at the siege of Jerusalem. Lie there with your arm bared and prophesy her destruction. |
| 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. | 8I will tie you up with ropes so you won’t be able to turn from side to side until the days of your siege have been completed. |
| 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. | 9“Now go and get some wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and emmer wheat, and mix them together in a storage jar. Use them to make bread for yourself during the 390 days you will be lying on your side. |
| 10The food you eat will be eight ounces a day by weight; you must eat it at fixed times. | 10Ration this out to yourself, eight ounces of food for each day, and eat it at set times. |
| 11And you must drink water by measure, a pint and a half; you must drink it at fixed times. | 11Then measure out a jar of water for each day, and drink it at set times. |
| 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." | 12Prepare and eat this food as you would barley cakes. While all the people are watching, bake it over a fire using dried human dung as fuel and then eat the bread.” |
| 13And the LORD said, "This is how the people of Israel will eat their unclean food among the nations where I will banish them." | 13Then the LORD said, “This is how Israel will eat defiled bread in the Gentile lands to which I will banish them!” |
| 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." | 14Then I said, “O Sovereign LORD, must I be defiled by using human dung? For I have never been defiled before. From the time I was a child until now I have never eaten any animal that died of sickness or was killed by other animals. I have never eaten any meat forbidden by the law.” |
| 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." | 15“All right,” the LORD said. “You may bake your bread with cow dung instead of human dung.” |
| 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 | 16Then he told me, “Son of man, I will make food very scarce in Jerusalem. It will be weighed out with great care and eaten fearfully. The water will be rationed out drop by drop, and the people will drink it with dismay. |
| 17because they will lack bread and water. Each one will be terrified, and they will rot for their iniquity. | 17Lacking food and water, people will look at one another in terror, and they will waste away under their punishment. |
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