Ezekiel 4:5-17

5For I have assigned you a number of days corresponding to the years of their iniquity, three hundred and ninety days; thus 1you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel. 6When 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 2each year. 7Then you shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem with your arm bared and 3prophesy against it. 8Now behold, I will 4put ropes on you so that you cannot turn from one side to the other until you have completed the days of your siege.

9“But as for you, take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet and 5spelt, 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. 10Your food which you eat shall be 6twenty shekels a day by weight; you shall eat it from time to time. 11The water you drink shall be the sixth part of a hin by measure; you shall drink it from time to time. 12You shall eat it as a barley cake, having baked it in their sight over human 7dung.” 13Then the Lord said, “Thus will the sons of Israel eat their bread 8unclean among the nations where I will banish them.” 14But I said, “9Ah, Lord 10God! Behold, I have 11never been defiled; for from my youth until now I have never eaten what 12died of itself or was torn by beasts, nor has any 13unclean meat ever 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.” 16Moreover, He said to me, “Son of man, behold, I am going to 14break the staff of bread in Jerusalem, and they will eat bread by 15weight and with anxiety, and drink water by 16measure and in horror, 17because bread and water will be scarce; and they will be appalled with one another and 17waste away in their iniquity.