Ezekiel 4

Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and pourtray upon it the city, even Jerusalem:

You too, human, take a tile, place it in front of you, and draw the picture of the city, which is Jerusalem.

And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it round about.

Surround the city, build a strong defensive structure, create a large mound to attack it, place your camp there too, and put many ramming machines all around it.

Moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city: and set thy face against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.

Additionally, take an iron pot and use it as a strong iron barrier between you and the city. Face the city and besiege it, setting up a siege. This will be a sign for the people of Israel.

Lie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it: according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their iniquity.

Lie on your left side and place the wrongdoing of the people of Israel on that side. For each day you lie there, you will carry their sins.

For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.

For I have given you their wrongdoings, based on the number of days, 390 days; so you will carry the guilt of the house of Israel.

And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year.

When you finish these tasks, lie down on your right side once more. You will carry the wrongdoing of Judah's household for 40 days; I have set each day as a year.

Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and thine arm shall be uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against it.

So you should focus on the battle for Jerusalem and reveal your arm, then speak prophecies against it.

And, behold, I will lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn thee from one side to another, till thou hast ended the days of thy siege.

And look, I will tie you up so you can't move around, until your time of siege is over.

Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.

Take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and fitches too. Mix them in one container and make bread from them. Eat this bread for 390 days while lying on your side.

And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it.

The food you can eat will weigh 20 shekels each day. You should eat it little by little over time.

Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.

Drink a set amount of water, equal to six parts of an hin, at regular intervals.

And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight.

You will eat it like a type of bread made from barley, and you will bake it using the waste that comes out of people, right in front of them.

And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them.

And God said, This is how the Israelites will eat their unclean food among non-Jews, in the place where I will force them to go.

Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul hath not been polluted: for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.

Then I said, "Ah Lord God! My soul hasn't done anything bad. From when I was young until now, I haven't eaten meat that dies on its own or is ripped apart. And I didn't eat any disgusting meat either."

Then he said unto me, Lo, I have given thee cow’s dung for man’s dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith.

Then he told me, "I've given you cow poop instead of regular poop to make your bread with."

Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment:

He also told me, "Son of man, get ready because I'm going to take away the food people rely on in Jerusalem. They will have to carefully ration their food, measuring it out, and they'll be shocked when they have to measure their water too."

That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.

So that they desire food and drink, and are shocked by each other, and waste away because of their wrongdoing.