Ezekiel:4
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You also ,
son of man ,
take you a tile ,
and lay it before you ,
and illustrate upon it the city ,
even Jerusalem :
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And lay siege against it ,
and build a fort against it ,
and cast a mount against it ;
set the camp also against it ,
and set battering rams against it round about .
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Moreover take you unto you an iron pan ,
and set it for a wall of iron between you and the city :
and set your face against it ,
and it shall be besieged ,
and you shall lay siege against it .
This shall be a sign to the house of Israel .
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Lie you also upon your left side ,
and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it :
according to the number of the days that you shall lie upon it you shall bear their iniquity .
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For I have laid upon you the years of their iniquity ,
according to the number of the days ,
three hundred and ninety days :
so shall you bear the iniquity of the house of Israel .
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And when you have accomplished them ,
lie again on your right side ,
and you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days :
I have appointed you each day for a year .
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Therefore you shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem ,
and yours arm shall be uncovered ,
and you shall prophesy against it .
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And ,
behold ,
I will lay bands upon you ,
and you shall not turn you from one side to another ,
till you have ended the days of your siege .
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Take you also unto you wheat ,
and barley ,
and beans ,
and lentils ,
and millet ,
and fitches ,
and put them in one vessel ,
and make you bread thereof ,
according to the number of the days that you shall lie upon your side ,
three hundred and ninety days shall you eat thereof .
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And your food which you shall eat shall be by weight ,
twenty shekels a day :
from time to time shall you eat it .
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You shall drink also water by measure ,
the sixth part of an hin :
from time to time shall you drink .
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And you shall eat it as barley cakes ,
and you shall bake it with dung that comes out of man ,
in their sight .
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And the LORD said ,
Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles ,
where I will drive them .
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Then said I ,
Ah Lord GOD !
behold ,
my soul has not been polluted :
for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dies of itself ,
or is torn in pieces ;
neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth .
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Then he said unto me ,
Lo ,
I have given you cow '
s dung for man '
s dung ,
and you shall prepare your bread therewith .
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Moreover 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 care ;
and they shall drink water by measure ,
and with astonishment :
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That they may lack bread and water ,
and be astonished one with another ,
and consume away for their iniquity .