4Lie upon your left side, and take the iniquity of the people of Israel upon yourself; you are to bear the iniquity of the people of Israel for the number of days that you lie on your side. 5For I have laid upon you the same number of days as the years of their iniquity - three hundred ninety days; so shall you bear the iniquity of the people of Israel. 6And after you have completed them (390 days), lie down again, on your right side, and you shall bear the iniquity of the people of Judah for forty days; I have assigned you a day for each year. 7Therefore, you shall turn your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and your arm shall be uncovered, and you shall prophesy her destruction. 8And I will also tie you with ropes, and you shall not be able to turn from one side to another, until you have finished the days of your siege.

9Also take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt, and put them in one jar, and make bread of it, according to the number of the days that you shall lie upon your side; three hundred ninety days shall you eat it. 10And weigh out your food which you shall eat each day, twenty shekels a day; and eat at set times. 11You shall also drink water by measure; the sixth part of a hin shall you drink at set times. 12And you shall eat it as barley cakes, and you shall bake it, with dung that comes out of man, in the sight of the people”. 13And the LORD said, “Even thus shall the people of Israel eat their defiled bread among the nations where I will drive them”. 14Then I said, “Ah, not so, LORD God! Behold, I have never so defiled myself; for from my youth up until now, have I not eaten of that which dies of itself, or is torn in pieces; nor did I eat any abominable food from my mouth”. 15Then He said to me, “Look, I have given you cow's dung instead of man's dung, and you shall bake your bread on it”. 16Moreover, He said to me, “Son of man, I am about to cut off the food supply in Jerusalem; and they shall eat bread carefully measured by weight; and they shall drink measured water, and with despair: 17That they may lack bread and water, and be dismayed in sight of each other, and waste away for their sin.”