rsv Ezekiel:4:1-5:17
rsv@Ezekiel:4:1 @ "And you, O son of man, take a brick and lay it before you, and portray upon it a city, even Jerusalem;
rsv@Ezekiel:4:2 @ and put siegeworks against it, and build a siege wall against it, and cast up a mound against it; set camps also against it, and plant battering rams against it round about.
rsv@Ezekiel:4:3 @ And take an iron plate, and place it as an iron wall between you and the city; and set your face toward it, and let it be in a state of siege, and press the siege against it. This is a sign for the house of Israel.
rsv@Ezekiel:4:4 @ "Then lie upon your left side, and I will lay the punishment of the house of Israel upon you; for the number of the days that you lie upon it, you shall bear their punishment.
rsv@Ezekiel:4:5 @ For I assign to you a number of days, three hundred and ninety days, equal to the number of the years of their punishment; so long shall you bear the punishment of the house of Israel.
rsv@Ezekiel:4:6 @ And when you have completed these, you shall lie down a second time, but on your right side, and bear the punishment of the house of Judah; forty days I assign you, a day for each year.
rsv@Ezekiel:4:7 @ And you shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, with your arm bared; and you shall prophesy against the city.
rsv@Ezekiel:4:8 @ And, behold, I will put cords upon you, so that you cannot turn from one side to the other, till you have completed the days of your siege.
rsv@Ezekiel:4:9 @ "And you, take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and spelt, and put them into a single vessel, and make bread of them. During the number of days that you lie upon your side, three hundred and ninety days, you shall eat it.
rsv@Ezekiel:4:10 @ And the food which you eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day; once a day you shall eat it.
rsv@Ezekiel:4:11 @ And water you shall drink by measure, the sixth part of a hin; once a day you shall drink.
rsv@Ezekiel:4:12 @ And you shall eat it as a barley cake, baking it in their sight on human dung."
rsv@Ezekiel:4:13 @ And the LORD said, "Thus shall the people of Israel eat their bread unclean, among the nations whither I will drive them."
rsv@Ezekiel:4:14 @ Then I said, "Ah Lord GOD! behold, I have never defiled myself; from my youth up till now I have never eaten what died of itself or was torn by beasts, nor has foul flesh come into my mouth."
rsv@Ezekiel:4:15 @ Then he said to me, "See, I will let you have cow's dung instead of human dung, on which you may prepare your bread."
rsv@Ezekiel:4:16 @ Moreover he said to me, "Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem; they shall eat bread by weight and with fearfulness; and they shall drink water by measure and in dismay.
rsv@Ezekiel:4:17 @ I will do this that they may lack bread and water, and look at one another in dismay, and waste away under their punishment.
rsv@Ezekiel:5:1 @ "And you, O son of man, take a sharp sword; use it as a barber's razor and pass it over your head and your beard; then take balances for weighing, and divide the hair.
rsv@Ezekiel:5:2 @ A third part you shall burn in the fire in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are completed; and a third part you shall take and strike with the sword round about the city; and a third part you shall scatter to the wind, and I will unsheathe the sword after them.
rsv@Ezekiel:5:3 @ And you shall take from these a small number, and bind them in the skirts of your robe.
rsv@Ezekiel:5:4 @ And of these again you shall take some, and cast them into the fire, and burn them in the fire; from there a fire will come forth into all the house of Israel.
rsv@Ezekiel:5:5 @ Thus says the Lord GOD: This is Jerusalem; I have set her in the center of the nations, with countries round about her.
rsv@Ezekiel:5:6 @ And she has wickedly rebelled against my ordinances more than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries round about her, by rejecting my ordinances and not walking in my statutes.
rsv@Ezekiel:5:7 @ Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you are more turbulent than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes or kept my ordinances, but have acted according to the ordinances of the nations that are round about you;
rsv@Ezekiel:5:8 @ therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I, even I, am against you; and I will execute judgments in the midst of you in the sight of the nations.
rsv@Ezekiel:5:9 @ And because of all your abominations I will do with you what I have never yet done, and the like of which I will never do again.
rsv@Ezekiel:5:10 @ Therefore fathers shall eat their sons in the midst of you, and sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments on you, and any of you who survive I will scatter to all the winds.
rsv@Ezekiel:5:11 @ Wherefore, as I live, says the Lord GOD, surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things and with all your abominations, therefore I will cut you down; my eye will not spare, and I will have no pity.
rsv@Ezekiel:5:12 @ A third part of you shall die of pestilence and be consumed with famine in the midst of you; a third part shall fall by the sword round about you; and a third part I will scatter to all the winds and will unsheathe the sword after them.
rsv@Ezekiel:5:13 @ "Thus shall my anger spend itself, and I will vent my fury upon them and satisfy myself; and they shall know that I, the LORD, have spoken in my jealousy, when I spend my fury upon them.
rsv@Ezekiel:5:14 @ Moreover I will make you a desolation and an object of reproach among the nations round about you and in the sight of all that pass by.
rsv@Ezekiel:5:15 @ You shall be a reproach and a taunt, a warning and a horror, to the nations round about you, when I execute judgments on you in anger and fury, and with furious chastisements--I, the LORD, have spoken--
rsv@Ezekiel:5:16 @ when I loose against you my deadly arrows of famine, arrows for destruction, which I will loose to destroy you, and when I bring more and more famine upon you, and break your staff of bread.
rsv@Ezekiel:5:17 @ I will send famine and wild beasts against you, and they will rob you of your children; pestilence and blood shall pass through you; and I will bring the sword upon you. I, the LORD, have spoken."
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