1You also, son of man, take a tile, and lay it before you, and portray on it a city, even Jerusalem: 2and lay siege against it, and build forts against it, and cast up a mound against it; set camps also against it, and plant battering rams against it all around. 3And take for yourself an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between you and the city: and set your face toward it, and it shall be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel. 4Moreover lie on your left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel on it; according to the number of the days that you shall lie on it, you shall bear their iniquity. 5For I have appointed the years of their iniquity to be to you a number of days, even three hundred and ninety days: so shall you bear the iniquity of the house of Israel. 6And again, when you have completed these, you shall lie on your right side, and shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah: forty days, each day for a year, I have appointed it to you. 7And you shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, with your arm uncovered; and you shall prophesy against it. 8And, behold, I lay bands on you, and you shall not turn from one side to the other, until you have completed the days of your siege. 9Also take for yourself wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel, and make bread from them for yourself; according to the number of the days that you shall lie on your side, even three hundred and ninety days, you shall eat of it. 10And your food which you shall eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time you shall eat it. 11And you shall drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time to time you shall drink. 12And you shall eat it as barley cakes, and you shall bake it in their sight with dung that comes out of man. 13And Yehovah said, Even so shall the children of Israel eat their bread unclean, among the nations where I will drive them. 14Then I said, Ah Lord Yehovah! behold, my soul has not been polluted; for from my youth up even till now I have not eaten what dies of itself, or is torn by beasts; nor has abominable flesh come into my mouth. 15Then he said to me, See, I have given you cow’s dung for man’s dung, and you shall prepare your bread on it. 16Moreover he said to me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with fearfulness; and they shall drink water by measure, and in dismay: 17that they may lack bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and waste away in their iniquity.