Chapter 4

  And thou, son of man, take thee a brick, and lay it before thee, and portray upon it a city, -- Jerusalem:  

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  and lay siege against it, and build forts against it, and cast a mound against it, and set camps against it, and place battering-rams against it round about.  

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  And take thou unto thee an iron plate, and put 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.  

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  And thou, lie upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it: the number of the days that thou liest upon it, thou shalt bear their iniquity.  

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  And I have appointed thee the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days; and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.  

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  And when thou hast accomplished them, thou shalt 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.  

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  And thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and thine arm shall be uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against it.  

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  And behold, I lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn thyself from one side to the other, till thou hast ended the days of thy siege.  

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  And thou, take unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, [according to] the number of the days that thou liest upon thy side: three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.  

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  And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it.  

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  And thou shalt drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.  

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  And thou shalt eat it [as] barley-cake, and thou shalt bake it in their sight with dung that cometh out of man.  

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  And Jehovah said, So shall the children of Israel eat their bread unclean among the nations whither I will drive them.  

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  Then said I, Ah, Lord Jehovah! behold, my soul hath not been defiled, and from my youth up even until now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or of that which is torn; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.  

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  And he said unto me, See, I have given thee cow's dung for man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith.  

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  And he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I break the staff of bread in Jerusalem; and they shall eat bread by weight, and with anxiety; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment:  

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  because bread and water shall fail them, and they shall be astonied one with another, and waste away in their iniquity.  

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