| Berean Study Bible | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1“Now you, son of man, take a brick, place it before you, and draw on it the city of Jerusalem. | 1"Now you son of man, get yourself a brick, place it before you and inscribe a city on it, Jerusalem. |
| 2Then lay siege against it: Construct a siege wall, build a ramp to it, set up camps against it, and place battering rams around it on all sides. | 2"Then lay siege against it, build a siege wall, raise up a ramp, pitch camps and place battering rams against it all around. |
| 3Then take an iron plate and set it up as an iron wall between yourself and the city. Turn your face toward it so that it is under siege, and besiege it. This will be a sign to the house of Israel. | 3"Then get yourself an iron plate and set it up as an iron wall between you and the city, and set your face toward it so that it is under siege, and besiege it. This is a sign to the house of Israel. |
| 4Then lie down on your left side and place the iniquity of the house of Israel upon yourself. You are to bear their iniquity for the number of days you lie on your side. | 4"As for you, lie down on your left side and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel on it; you shall bear their iniquity for the number of days that you lie on it. |
| 5For I have assigned to you 390 days, according to the number of years of their iniquity. So you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel. | 5"For I have assigned you a number of days corresponding to the years of their iniquity, three hundred and ninety days; thus you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel. |
| 6When you have completed these days, lie down again, but on your right side, and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah. I have assigned to you 40 days, a day for each year. | 6"When you have completed these, you shall lie down a second time, but on your right side and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah; I have assigned it to you for forty days, a day for each year. |
| 7You must turn your face toward the siege of Jerusalem with your arm bared, and prophesy against it. | 7"Then you shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem with your arm bared and prophesy against it. |
| 8Now behold, I will tie you up with ropes so you cannot turn from side to side until you have finished the days of your siege. | 8"Now behold, I will put ropes on you so that you cannot turn from one side to the other until you have completed the days of your siege. |
| 9But take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt; put them in a single container and make them into bread for yourself. This is what you are to eat during the 390 days you lie on your side. | 9"But as for you, take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet and spelt, put them in one vessel and make them into bread for yourself; you shall eat it according to the number of the days that you lie on your side, three hundred and ninety days. |
| 10You are to weigh out twenty shekels of food to eat each day, and you are to eat it at set times. | 10"Your food which you eat shall be twenty shekels a day by weight; you shall eat it from time to time. |
| 11You are also to measure out a sixth of a hin of water to drink, and you are to drink it at set times. | 11"The water you drink shall be the sixth part of a hin by measure; you shall drink it from time to time. |
| 12And you shall eat the food as you would a barley cake, after you bake it over dried human excrement in the sight of the people.” | 12"You shall eat it as a barley cake, having baked it in their sight over human dung." |
| 13Then the LORD said, “This is how the Israelites will eat their defiled bread among the nations to which I will banish them.” | 13Then the LORD said, "Thus will the sons of Israel eat their bread unclean among the nations where I will banish them." |
| 14“Ah, Lord GOD,” I said, “I have never defiled myself. From my youth until now I have not eaten anything found dead or mauled by wild beasts. No unclean meat has ever entered my mouth.” | 14But I said, "Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, I have never been defiled; for from my youth until now I have never eaten what died of itself or was torn by beasts, nor has any unclean meat ever entered my mouth." |
| 15“Look,” He replied, “I will let you use cow dung instead of human excrement, and you may bake your bread over that.” | 15Then He said to me, "See, I will give you cow's dung in place of human dung over which you will prepare your bread." |
| 16Then He told me, “Son of man, I am going to cut off the supply of food in Jerusalem. They will anxiously eat bread rationed by weight, and in despair they will drink water by measure. | 16Moreover, He said to me, "Son of man, behold, I am going to break the staff of bread in Jerusalem, and they will eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and drink water by measure and in horror, |
| 17So they will lack food and water; they will be appalled at the sight of one another wasting away in their iniquity. | 17because bread and water will be scarce; and they will be appalled with one another and waste away in their iniquity. |
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