4:4 “Also for your part lie on your left side and place the iniquity 3 of the house of Israel on it. For the number of days you lie on your side you will bear their iniquity. 4:5 I have determined that the number of the years of their iniquity are to be the number of days 4 for you – 390 days. 5 So bear the iniquity of the house of Israel. 6
4:6 “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 7 – I have assigned one day for each year. 4:7 You must turn your face toward the siege of Jerusalem with your arm bared and prophesy against it. 4:8 Look 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. 8
4:9 “As for you, take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt, 9 put them in a single container, and make food 10 from them for yourself. For the same number of days that you lie on your side – 390 days 11 – you will eat it. 4:10 The food you eat will be eight ounces 12 a day by weight; you must eat it at fixed 13 times. 4:11 And you must drink water by measure, a pint and a half; 14 you must drink it at fixed times. 4:12 And 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.” 15 4:13 And the Lord said, “This is how the people of Israel will eat their unclean food among the nations 16 where I will banish them.”
4:14 And 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 17 has never entered my mouth.”
4:15 So he said to me, “All right then, I will substitute cow’s manure instead of human excrement. You will cook your food over it.”
4:16 Then he said to me, “Son of man, I am about to remove the bread supply 18 in Jerusalem. 19 They will eat their bread ration anxiously, and they will drink their water ration in terror 4:17 because they will lack bread and water. Each one will be terrified, and they will rot for their iniquity. 20