Yehezkiel 4:2-3

4:2 Lay siege to it! Build siege works against it. Erect a siege ramp ¹  against it! Post soldiers outside it ²  and station battering rams around it. 4:3 Then for your part take an iron frying pan ³  and set it up as an iron wall between you and the city. Set your face toward it. It is to be under siege; you are to besiege it. This is a sign ⁴  for the house of Israel.

[4:2]  ¹ tn Or “a barricade.”

[4:2]  ² tn Heb “set camps against it.”

[4:3]  ³ tn Or “a griddle,” that is, some sort of plate for cooking.

[4:3]  ⁴ tn That is, a symbolic object lesson.