| English Standard Version | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1“And you, son of man, take a brick and lay it before you, and engrave on it a city, even Jerusalem. | 1"Now you son of man, get yourself a brick, place it before you and inscribe a city on it, Jerusalem. |
| 2And 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 all around. | 2"Then lay siege against it, build a siege wall, raise up a ramp, pitch camps and place battering rams against it all around. |
| 3And you, take an iron griddle, 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. | 3"Then get yourself an iron plate and set it up as an iron wall between you and the city, and set your face toward it so that it is under siege, and besiege it. This is a sign to the house of Israel. |
| 4“Then lie on your left side, and place the punishment of the house of Israel upon it. For the number of the days that you lie on it, you shall bear their punishment. | 4"As for you, lie down on your left side and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel on it; you shall bear their iniquity for the number of days that you lie on it. |
| 5For I assign to you a number of days, 390 days, equal to the number of the years of their punishment. So long shall you bear the punishment of the house of Israel. | 5"For I have assigned you a number of days corresponding to the years of their iniquity, three hundred and ninety days; thus you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel. |
| 6And 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. | 6"When you have completed these, you shall lie down a second time, but on your right side and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah; I have assigned it to you for forty days, a day for each year. |
| 7And you shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, with your arm bared, and you shall prophesy against the city. | 7"Then you shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem with your arm bared and prophesy against it. |
| 8And behold, I will place cords upon you, so that you cannot turn from one side to the other, till you have completed the days of your siege. | 8"Now behold, I will put ropes on you so that you cannot turn from one side to the other until you have completed the days of your siege. |
| 9“And you, take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and emmer, and put them into a single vessel and make your bread from them. During the number of days that you lie on your side, 390 days, you shall eat it. | 9"But as for you, take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet and spelt, put them in one vessel and make them into bread for yourself; you shall eat it according to the number of the days that you lie on your side, three hundred and ninety days. |
| 10And your food that you eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day; from day to day you shall eat it. | 10"Your food which you eat shall be twenty shekels a day by weight; you shall eat it from time to time. |
| 11And water you shall drink by measure, the sixth part of a hin; from day to day you shall drink. | 11"The water you drink shall be the sixth part of a hin by measure; you shall drink it from time to time. |
| 12And you shall eat it as a barley cake, baking it in their sight on human dung.” | 12"You shall eat it as a barley cake, having baked it in their sight over human dung." |
| 13And the LORD said, “Thus shall the people of Israel eat their bread unclean, among the nations where I will drive them.” | 13Then the LORD said, "Thus will the sons of Israel eat their bread unclean among the nations where I will banish them." |
| 14Then 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 tainted meat come into my mouth.” | 14But I said, "Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, I have never been defiled; for from my youth until now I have never eaten what died of itself or was torn by beasts, nor has any unclean meat ever entered my mouth." |
| 15Then he said to me, “See, I assign to you cow’s dung instead of human dung, on which you may prepare your bread.” | 15Then He said to me, "See, I will give you cow's dung in place of human dung over which you will prepare your bread." |
| 16Moreover, he said to me, “Son of man, behold, I will break the supply of bread in Jerusalem. They shall eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and they shall drink water by measure and in dismay. | 16Moreover, He said to me, "Son of man, behold, I am going to break the staff of bread in Jerusalem, and they will eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and drink water by measure and in horror, |
| 17I will do this that they may lack bread and water, and look at one another in dismay, and rot away because of their punishment. | 17because bread and water will be scarce; and they will be appalled with one another and waste away in their iniquity. |
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