| New Living Translation | Holman Christian Standard Bible |
| 1“And now, son of man, take a large clay brick and set it down in front of you. Then draw a map of the city of Jerusalem on it. | 1Now you, son of man, take a brick, set it in front of you, and draw the city of Jerusalem on it. |
| 2Show the city under siege. Build a wall around it so no one can escape. Set up the enemy camp, and surround the city with siege ramps and battering rams. | 2Then lay siege against it: construct a siege wall, build a ramp, pitch military camps, and place battering rams against it on all sides. |
| 3Then take an iron griddle and place it between you and the city. Turn toward the city and demonstrate how harsh the siege will be against Jerusalem. This will be a warning to the people of Israel. | 3Take an iron plate and set it up as an iron wall between yourself and the city. Turn your face toward it so that it is under siege, and besiege it. This will be a sign for the house of Israel." |
| 4“Now lie on your left side and place the sins of Israel on yourself. You are to bear their sins for the number of days you lie there on your side. | 4Then lie down on your left side and place the iniquity of the house of Israel on it. You will bear their iniquity for the number of days you lie on your side. |
| 5I am requiring you to bear Israel’s sins for 390 days—one day for each year of their sin. | 5For I have assigned you the years of their iniquity according to the number of days you lie down, 390 days; so you will bear the iniquity of the house of Israel. |
| 6After that, turn over and lie on your right side for 40 days—one day for each year of Judah’s sin. | 6When you have completed these days, lie down again, but on your right side, and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah. I have assigned you 40 days, a day for each year. |
| 7“Meanwhile, keep staring at the siege of Jerusalem. Lie there with your arm bared and prophesy her destruction. | 7You must turn your face toward the siege of Jerusalem with your arm bared, and prophesy against it. |
| 8I will tie you up with ropes so you won’t be able to turn from side to side until the days of your siege have been completed. | 8Be aware that I will put cords on you so you cannot turn from side to side until you have finished the days of your siege." |
| 9“Now go and get some wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and emmer wheat, and mix them together in a storage jar. Use them to make bread for yourself during the 390 days you will be lying on your side. | 9Also take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt. Put them in a single container and make them into bread for yourself. You are to eat it during the number of days you lie on your side, 390 days. |
| 10Ration this out to yourself, eight ounces of food for each day, and eat it at set times. | 10The food you eat each day will be eight ounces by weight; you will eat it from time to time. |
| 11Then measure out a jar of water for each day, and drink it at set times. | 11You are also to drink water by measure, a sixth of a gallon, which you will drink from time to time. |
| 12Prepare and eat this food as you would barley cakes. While all the people are watching, bake it over a fire using dried human dung as fuel and then eat the bread.” | 12You will eat it as you would a barley cake and bake it over dried human excrement in their sight." |
| 13Then the LORD said, “This is how Israel will eat defiled bread in the Gentile lands to which I will banish them!” | 13The LORD said, "This is how the Israelites will eat their bread--ceremonially unclean--among the nations where I will banish them." |
| 14Then I said, “O Sovereign LORD, must I be defiled by using human dung? For I have never been defiled before. From the time I was a child until now I have never eaten any animal that died of sickness or was killed by other animals. I have never eaten any meat forbidden by the law.” | 14But I said, "Oh, Lord GOD, I have never been defiled. From my youth until now I have not eaten anything that died naturally or was mauled by wild beasts. And impure meat has never entered my mouth." |
| 15“All right,” the LORD said. “You may bake your bread with cow dung instead of human dung.” | 15He replied to me, "Look, I will let you use cow dung instead of human excrement, and you can make your bread over that." |
| 16Then he told me, “Son of man, I will make food very scarce in Jerusalem. It will be weighed out with great care and eaten fearfully. The water will be rationed out drop by drop, and the people will drink it with dismay. | 16Then He said to me, "Son of man, I am going to cut off the supply of bread in Jerusalem. They will anxiously eat bread rationed by weight and in dread drink water by measure. |
| 17Lacking food and water, people will look at one another in terror, and they will waste away under their punishment. | 17So they will lack bread and water; everyone will be devastated and waste away because of their iniquity." |
| Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved. | Holman Christian Standard Bible®, Copyright © 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2009 by Holman Bible Publishers. Used by permission. |
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