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And toward the siege of Jerusalem you must set your face and your bared arm; then you must prophesy against it. Now[a] look! I will put on you cords, and you may not turn yourself from one side to your other side until you complete the days of your siege.

Ezekiel’s Strange Defiled Meal

“And you, take for yourself[b] wheat and barley and beans and lentils and millet[c] and spelt, and you must put them in one vessel, and you must make them for yourself[d] into a food during the number of days that you are lying on your side; three hundred and ninety days you shall eat it.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 4:8 Or “and”
  2. Ezekiel 4:9 Hebrew “you”
  3. Ezekiel 4:9 Or “sorghum”
  4. Ezekiel 4:9 Hebrew “you”

Turn your face(A) toward the siege of Jerusalem and with bared arm prophesy against her. I will tie you up with ropes so that you cannot turn from one side to the other until you have finished the days of your siege.(B)

“Take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and spelt;(C) put them in a storage jar and use them to make bread for yourself. You are to eat it during the 390 days you lie on your side.

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