1 et tu fili hominis sume tibi laterem et pones eum coram te
et describes in eo civitatem Hierusalem
2 et ordinabis adversus eam obsidionem
et aedificabis munitiones et conportabis aggerem
et dabis contra eam castra et pones arietes in gyro
3 et tu sume tibi sartaginem ferream
et pones eam murum ferreum inter te et inter civitatem
et obfirmabis faciem tuam ad eam et erit in obsidionem
et circumdabis eam
signum est domui Israhel
4 et tu dormies super latus tuum sinistrum
et pones iniquitates domus Israhel super eo
numero dierum quibus dormies super illud
et adsumes iniquitatem eorum
5 ego autem dedi tibi annos iniquitatis eorum numero dierum
trecentos et nonaginta dies
et portabis iniquitatem domus Israhel
6 et cum conpleveris haec dormies super latus tuum dextrum secundo
et adsumes iniquitatem domus Iuda quadraginta diebus
diem pro anno diem inquam pro anno dedi tibi
7 et ad obsidionem Hierusalem convertes faciem tuam
et brachium tuum erit exertum
et prophetabis adversus eam
8 ecce circumdedi te vinculis
et non te convertes a latere tuo in latus aliud
donec conpleas dies obsidionis tuae
9 et tu sume tibi frumentum et hordeum et fabam
et lentem et milium et viciam
et mittes ea in vas unum
et facies tibi panes numero dierum quibus dormies super latus tuum
trecentis et nonaginta diebus comedes illud
10 cibus autem tuus quo vesceris erit in pondere viginti stateres in die
a tempore usque ad tempus comedes illud
11 et aquam in mensura bibes sextam partem hin
a tempore usque ad tempus bibes illud
12 et quasi subcinericium hordiacium comedes illud
et stercore quod egredietur de homine operies illud in
oculis eorum
13 et dixit Dominus
sic comedent filii Israhel panem suum pollutum
inter gentes ad quas eiciam eos
14 et dixi ha ha ha Domine Deus
ecce anima mea non est polluta
et morticinum et laceratum a bestiis non comedi
ab infantia mea usque nunc
et non est ingressa os meum omnis caro inmunda
15 et dixit ad me ecce dedi tibi fimum boum pro stercoribus humanis
et facies panem tuum in eo
16 et dixit ad me
fili hominis ecce ego conteram baculum panis in Hierusalem
et comedent panem in pondere et in sollicitudine
et aquam in mensura et in angustia bibent
17 ut deficientibus pane et aqua corruat unusquisque ad fratrem suum
et contabescant in iniquitatibus suis
1 Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and pourtray upon it the city, even Jerusalem: 2 And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it round about. 3 Moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city: and set thy face against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel. 4 Lie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it: according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their iniquity. 5 For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel. 6 And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year. 7 Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and thine arm shall be uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against it. 8 And, behold, I will lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn thee from one side to another, till thou hast ended the days of thy siege.
9 ¶ Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof. 10 And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it. 11 Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time to time shalt thou drink. 12 And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight. 13 And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them. 14 Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul hath not been polluted: for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth. 15 Then he said unto me, Lo, I have given thee cow’s dung for man’s dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith. 16 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment: 17 That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.