Ezekiel 4:5-17

5I have appointed the years of their punishment to you as a number of days—390 days. So you will bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.

6When you have completed these, you will lie on your right side and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah—40 days—a day for each year, I have appointed to you.

7You will set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, with your arm bared, and prophesy against it.

8“Behold, I will put ropes upon you. You will not be able to turn from side to side until you have completed the days of your siege.

9Take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and rye, and put them in one bowl. You will make bread from them for the number of days that you will lie on your side; for 390 days, you will eat it.

10The food that you will eat will be 20 shekels a day by weight. You may eat from it from time to time.

11You are also to drink water by measure, a sixth of a hin. You may drink it from time to time.

12Eat it as barley cakes. Bake it on human dung before their eyes.”

13Then Adonai said, “This is how Bnei-Yisrael will eat their bread—unclean, among the nations where I will scatter them.”

14Then I said, “Ah, Adonai Elohim ! Behold, I have never defiled myself. From my youth up until now have I not eaten what died of itself or was torn by beasts. Tainted meat has never come into my mouth.”

15He said to me, “See, I have given you cow dung instead of human dung. So you will prepare your bread on it.”

16Then he said to me, “Son of man, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem. They will eat bread by weight, in anxiety, and they will drink water by measure, in horror.

17On account of their lack of bread and water they will be appalled at one another and waste away in their iniquity.