1 ¶ Now you, son of man, take a tile, and lay it in front of you, and draw the city of Jerusalem on it:

2 And lay siege to it, build opposing towers, and raise a ramp against it; place opposing troops, and set battering rams against it all around.

3 Then take an iron griddle, and place it as a wall of iron between you and the city: and set your face against it, and it will be besieged, and you will lay siege against it. This will be a sign to the house of Israel.

4 Then lie on your left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel on it: you will bear their iniquity for the number of the days that you lie on your left side.

5 For I assign to you the years of their sin, equal to the number of days, three hundred and ninety days: so you will bear the sin of the house of Israel.

6 And when you have completed those days, lie on your right side again, and you will bear the sin of the house of Judah for forty days: I assign you one day for each year.

7 You will turn your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and bare your arm, and you will prophesy against it.

8 And I will place ropes upon you, and you will not turn from one side to the other, until you have completed the days of your siege.

9 ¶ Then take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt, and put them in one container, and make them into bread for yourself, for as long as the number of the days that you lie upon your side, you will eat of them for three hundred and ninety days.

10 And the food you eat should be weighed, eat a weight of twenty shekels a day: throughout the day.

11 You shall also drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: which you shall drink from time to time.

12 And you will eat the bread as barley cakes, and you will bake it with human excrement as fuel, while people watch you.

13 And the LORD said, In the same way the children of Israel will eat defiled bread among the Gentiles, where I scatter them.

14 Then I said, Ah Lord GOD! behold, I have never defiled myself: for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dies of itself, or is torn in pieces; nor did any unclean food enter my mouth.

15 Then he said to me, Look, I am giving you cow’s dung in place of man’s dung, and you will use it to prepare your bread.

16 And he also said to me, Son of man, behold, I will cut short the supply of bread in Jerusalem: so that they will weigh the bread they eat with dread; and they will measure the water they drink with fear:

17 So that they will lack bread and water, and be appalled as they look at one another, wasting away because of their sin.