| New American Standard Bible 1995 | NET Bible |
| 1"Now you son of man, get yourself a brick, place it before you and inscribe a city on it, Jerusalem. | 1"And you, son of man, take a brick and set it in front of you. Inscribe a city on it--Jerusalem. |
| 2"Then lay siege against it, build a siege wall, raise up a ramp, pitch camps and place battering rams against it all around. | 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. |
| 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. | 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. |
| 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. | 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. |
| 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. | 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. |
| 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. | 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. |
| 7"Then you shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem with your arm bared and prophesy against it. | 7You must turn your face toward the siege of Jerusalem with your arm bared and prophesy against it. |
| 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. | 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. |
| 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. | 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. |
| 10"Your food which you eat shall be twenty shekels a day by weight; you shall eat it from time to time. | 10The food you eat will be eight ounces a day by weight; you must eat it at fixed times. |
| 11"The water you drink shall be the sixth part of a hin by measure; you shall drink it from time to time. | 11And you must drink water by measure, a pint and a half; you must drink it at fixed times. |
| 12"You shall eat it as a barley cake, having baked it in their sight over human dung." | 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." |
| 13Then the LORD said, "Thus will the sons of Israel eat their bread unclean among the nations where I will banish them." | 13And the LORD said, "This is how the people of Israel will eat their unclean food among the nations where I will banish them." |
| 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." | 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." |
| 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." | 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." |
| 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, | 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 |
| 17because bread and water will be scarce; and they will be appalled with one another and waste away in their iniquity. | 17because they will lack bread and water. Each one will be terrified, and they will rot for their iniquity. |
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