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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5I am requiring you to bear Israel’s sins for 390 days—one day for each year of their sin. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6After that, turn over and lie on your right side for 40 days—one day for each year of Judah’s sin. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7“Meanwhile, keep staring at the siege of Jerusalem. Lie there with your arm bared and prophesy her destruction. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Ration this out to yourself, eight ounces of food for each day, and eat it at set times. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Then measure out a jar of water for each day, and drink it at set times. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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.” |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Then the LORD said, “This is how Israel will eat defiled bread in the Gentile lands to which I will banish them!” |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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.” |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15“All right,” the LORD said. “You may bake your bread with cow dung instead of human dung.” |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Lacking food and water, people will look at one another in terror, and they will waste away under their punishment. |
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