lesserot - Ezekiel:4:1-5:17

lesserot@Ezekiel:4:1 @ But thou, O son of man, take thyself a tile, and lay it before thee, and engrave upon it a city, Jerusalem:

lesserot@Ezekiel:4:2 @ And place around it a siege, and build works of attack against it, and cast up a mound against it; and arrange around it encampments, and place against it battering rams round about.

lesserot@Ezekiel:4:3 @ Moreover take thou unto thyself an iron pan, and set it up as a wall of iron between thee and the city: and direct thy face against it, that it may be placed in a state of siege, and lay siege against it. This shall be a sign for the house of Israel.

lesserot@Ezekiel:4:4 @ And as for thyself, lie upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it: the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it shalt thou bear their iniquity.

lesserot@Ezekiel:4:5 @ But as for myself, I lay upon thee the years of their iniquity, after the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.

lesserot@Ezekiel:4:6 @ And when thou hast made an end of them, thou shalt lie on thy right side, the second time, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: a day each for a year, a day for a year do I lay it on thee.

lesserot@Ezekiel:4:7 @ And toward the siege of Jerusalem shalt thou direct thy face with thy arm uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against it.

lesserot@Ezekiel:4:8 @ And, behold, I will lay ropes upon thee, that thou mayest not turn thyself from one side to the other, till thou hast made an end of the days of thy siege.

lesserot@Ezekiel:4:9 @ But thou take unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel, and make thyself bread thereof, the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days, shalt thou eat it.

lesserot@Ezekiel:4:10 @ And thy food which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels for every day: from one time to the other time shalt thou eat it.

lesserot@Ezekiel:4:11 @ And water shalt thou drink by measure, the sixth part of a hin: from one time to the other time shalt thou drink.

lesserot@Ezekiel:4:12 @ And in form of a barleycake shalt thou eat it, and this shalt thou bake with balls of human excrement before their eyes.

lesserot@Ezekiel:4:13 @ And the Lord said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their bread unclean among the nations whither I will drive them.

lesserot@Ezekiel:4:14 @ Then said I, Ah Lord Eternal! behold, my soul hath not been defiled; and that which dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces, have I never eaten from my youth up even until now; and never is flesh of abomination come into my mouth.

lesserot@Ezekiel:4:15 @ Then said he unto me, Lo, I have given thee cows dung instead of human excrement; and thou shalt prepare thy bread thereupon.

lesserot@Ezekiel:4:16 @ And he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem; and they shall eat bread by weight, and with anxious care; and they shall drink water by measure, and in confusion;

lesserot@Ezekiel:4:17 @ In order that they may want bread and water, and be confounded one with the other, and pine away for their iniquity.

lesserot@Ezekiel:5:1 @ And thou, son of man, take unto thyself a sharp sword, a barbers razor shalt thou take for it unto thyself, and cause it to pass over thy head and over thy beard: then take unto thee balances for weighing, and divide the hair.

lesserot@Ezekiel:5:2 @ One third part shalt thou burn with fire in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are completed; and thou shalt take another third part, and smite round about it with the sword; and the other third part shalt thou scatter to the wind: and I will draw out a sword after the same.

lesserot@Ezekiel:5:3 @ And take thence a few in number, and tie them up in the corners of thy garment.

lesserot@Ezekiel:5:4 @ And from these again shalt thou take some, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire: therefrom shall a fire go forth unto all the house of Israel.

lesserot@Ezekiel:5:5 @ Thus hath said the Lord Eternal, This is Jerusalem, which I had set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her.

lesserot@Ezekiel:5:6 @ But she rebelled against my ordinances more wickedly than the nations, and against my statutes, more than the countries that are round about her; for my ordinances they have despised, and as for my statutes, they have not walked in them.

lesserot@Ezekiel:5:7 @ Therefore thus hath said the Lord Eternal, Because ye have given yourselves up to evil more than the nations that are round about you, have not walked in my statutes, and have not executed my ordinances, and not even acted according to the ordinances of the nations that are round about you:

lesserot@Ezekiel:5:8 @ Therefore thus hath said the Lord Eternal, Behold, I, also I am against thee, and I will execute judgments in the midst of thee before the eyes of the nations.

lesserot@Ezekiel:5:9 @ And I will do in thee that which I have never done, and the like of which I will never do any more, because of all thy abominations.

lesserot@Ezekiel:5:10 @ Therefore fathers shall devour their children in the midst of thee, and children shall devour their fathers: and I will execute judgments on thee, and I will scatter all thy remnant unto all the winds.

lesserot@Ezekiel:5:11 @ Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord Eternal, Surely, because thou hast made unclean my sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and with all thy abominations: therefore will I also diminish; and my eye shall not show pity, and I also will not spare.

lesserot@Ezekiel:5:12 @ A third part of thee shall die through the pestilence, and come through famine to their end in the midst of thee; and another third part shall fall by the sword round about thee; and the other third part will I scatter unto all the winds, and a sword will I draw out after them.

lesserot@Ezekiel:5:13 @ Thus shall my anger be accomplished, and I will cause my fury to rest upon them, and I will satisfy myself: and they shall know that I the Lord have spoken it in my zeal, when I have let out all my fury on them.

lesserot@Ezekiel:5:14 @ Yea, I will render thee a ruin, and a disgrace among the nations that are round about thee, before the eyes of every one that passeth by.

lesserot@Ezekiel:5:15 @ And she shall be a disgrace and a taunt, a warning and an astonishment unto the nations that are round about thee, when I execute judgments on thee in anger and in fury and in furious chastisements,I the Lord have spoken it,

lesserot@Ezekiel:5:16 @ When I send out among them the dreadful arrows of famine, which were the cause of destruction, which I will send out to destroy you; and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break unto you the staff of bread:

lesserot@Ezekiel:5:17 @ So will I let loose over you famine and wild beasts, and they shall make thee childless; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and the sword will I bring over thee. I the Lord have spoken it.