Ezekiel:4
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Thou also ,
son of man ,
take thee a tile ,
and lay it before thee ,
and pourtray 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 thou unto thee an iron pan ,
and set 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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Lie thou also upon thy left side ,
and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it :
according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their iniquity .
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For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity ,
according to the number of the days ,
three hundred and ninety days :
so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel .
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And when thou hast accomplished them ,
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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Therefore 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 will lay bands upon thee ,
and thou shalt not turn thee from one side to another ,
till thou hast ended the days of thy siege .
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Take thou also unto thee wheat ,
and barley ,
and beans ,
and lentiles ,
and millet ,
and fitches ,
and put them in one vessel ,
and make thee bread thereof ,
according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie 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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Thou shalt drink also water by measure ,
the sixth part of an hin :
from time to time shalt thou drink .
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And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes ,
and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh 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 ,
whither I will drive them .
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Then said I ,
Ah Lord GOD !
behold ,
my soul hath not been polluted :
for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dieth 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 thee cow '
s dung for man '
s dung ,
and thou shalt prepare thy 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 want bread and water ,
and be astonied one with another ,
and consume away for their iniquity .