Now you, son of man, take a tile and set it before you; and inscribe on it a city, Jerusalem;

And lay a siege against it, and build a siege wall against it, and cast up a mound against it, and set up camps against it, and set battering rams all around it.

And take an iron plate and set it as an iron wall between you and the city, and set your face against it; and it will be under siege, and you shall lay siege against it. This will be a sign to the house of Israel.

Moreover lie down on your left side and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel on it; you shall bear their iniquity for the number of days that you lie on it.

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

And when you have completed them, lie down again, on your right side; and you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah for forty days; I have appointed to you a day for each year.

Then toward the siege of Jerusalem you shall set your face with your arm bared, and you shall prophesy against it.

And I will then put ropes on you so that you cannot turn from one side to the other, until you have completed the days of your siege.

And take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel, and make them into bread for yourself. For the number of days that you lie on your side, for three-hundred ninety days, you shall eat it.

And your food which you eat shall be twenty shekels a day by weight; at fixed times you shall eat it.

And the water that you drink shall be a sixth of a hin by measure; at fixed times you shall drink it.

And as a barley cake you shall eat it; on human excrement you shall bake it in their sight.

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

Then I said, Ah, Lord Jehovah. Indeed my soul has never been defiled; for from my youth until now I have not eaten anything that has died of itself or has been torn to pieces, nor has any abominable flesh entered into my mouth.

And He said to me, See, I give you cow's dung instead of human excrement, and you will make your bread over it.

Then He said to me, Son of man, I am now breaking the staff of bread in Jerusalem; and they will eat bread by weight and in anxiety, and they will drink water by measure and in horror;

Because they will lack bread and water, and they will be horrified at each other and will rot in their iniquity.

And you, son of man, take a sharp sword; take it as a barber's razor and pass it over your head and over your beard; then take scales to weigh with, and divide  ¹the hair.

One third you shall burn in the middle of the city when the days of the siege are fulfilled; and you shall take a third and strike it with the sword all around the city; and one third you shall scatter to the wind, and I will draw a sword after them.

And you shall take from there a few in number and bind them in the edges of your garment.

And you shall take again from them and cast them into the midst of the fire; and you shall burn them in the fire; from them fire will go forth against all the house of Israel.

Thus says the Lord Jehovah, This is Jerusalem; I have set her in the midst of the nations, and around her are countries.

But she has rebelled against My  ¹ordinances in wickedness more than the nations and against My  ¹statutes more than the countries that surround her, for they have rejected My ordinances and have not walked in My statutes.

Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah, Because you have been more turbulent than the nations that surround you and have not walked in My statutes and have not kept My ordinances and have not even kept the ordinances of the nations that surround you;

Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah, Indeed I, even I, am against you, and I will execute judgments in your midst in the sight of the nations.

And I will do among you that which I have not done and the like of which I will never do again, because of all your abominations.

Therefore fathers will eat the sons in your midst, and sons will eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments upon you, and I will scatter all your remnant toward all the winds.

Therefore as I live, declares the Lord Jehovah, surely because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable things and all your abominations, therefore I will also  ¹withdraw My eye that it not pity you, nor will I spare.

One third of you will die by pestilence, and they will be consumed by famine in the midst of you; and one third will fall by the sword surrounding you; and one third I will scatter toward all the winds, and I will draw a sword after them.

Thus My anger will be spent, and I will cause My wrath to rest upon them, and I will be comforted; and they will know that I, Jehovah, have spoken in My zeal when I spend My wrath upon them.

Moreover I will make you a desolation and a reproach among the nations that surround you, in the sight of all who pass by.

Thus  ¹you will be a reproach and a taunt, a warning and a horror, to the nations that surround you, when I execute judgments upon you in anger and wrath and furious rebukes. I, Jehovah, have spoken.

When I send against them the evil arrows of famine, which are for destruction and which I will send to destroy you, I will increase the famine upon you and will break your staff of bread.

Thus I will send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they will make you childless; and pestilence and blood will pass through you, and I will bring a sword upon you. I, Jehovah, have spoken.

And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,

Son of man, set your face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them,

And say, Mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Jehovah. Thus says the Lord Jehovah to the mountains and the hills, to the ravines and the valleys, I am now bringing a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places.

And your altars will be desolated, and your sun images will be broken; and I will make your slain fall before your idols.

And I will lay the corpses of the children of Israel before their idols, and I will scatter your bones around your altars.

In all the places that you dwell the cities will be laid waste and the high places will be desolated, so that your altars may be laid waste and desolated, and your idols may be broken and brought to an end, and your sun images may be cut down, and your works may be blotted out.

And the slain will fall in your midst, and you will know that I am Jehovah.

But I will leave a  ¹remnant, in that you will have those who have escaped the sword among the nations, when you are scattered among the countries.

And those of you who escape will remember Me among the nations to which they are carried away, how I am broken with their heart of harlotry, which turned away from Me, and with their eyes that go as harlots after their idols; and they will loathe themselves in their own sight for the evils that they have done, for all their abominations.

And they will know that I am Jehovah; I have not said in vain that I would do this ill to them.

Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Clap your hands and stamp your foot and say, Alas for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel! For they will fall by sword, famine, and pestilence.

He who is far off will die by the pestilence, and he who is near will fall by the sword, and he who is left remaining and is besieged will die by the famine; thus I will spend My wrath on them.

Then you will know that I am Jehovah, when their slain are among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, under every green tree, and under every leafy terebinth, the places where they offered a sweet savor to all their idols.

So I will stretch out My hand against them and will make the land desolate, indeed, more desolate than the wilderness of Diblath, in all the places that they dwell; and they will know that I am Jehovah.