Ezekiel 4:12

12 Tu mangeras des gâteaux d'orge, que tu feras cuire en leur présence avec des excréments humains.

Ezekiel 4:12 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 4:12

And thou shalt eat it [as] barley cakes
That is, the bread made of wheat, barley, beans, lentiles, millet, and fitches, was to be made in the form of barley cakes, and to be baked as they; not in an oven, but under ashes; and these ashes not of wood, or straw, or turf, but as follows: and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of men, in their
sight:
the prophet was to take human dung, and dry it, and then cover the cakes or loaves of his mixed bread with it, and burn it over them, and with it bake it; which must be a very disagreeable task to him, and make the food very nauseous, both to himself and to the Jews, in whose sight it was done; and this shows scarcity of fuel, and the severity of the famine; that they had not fuel to bake with, or could not stay till it was baked in an oven, and therefore took this method; as well as points at what they were to eat when carried captive, as follows:

Ezekiel 4:12 In-Context

10 La nourriture que tu mangeras sera du poids de vingt sicles par jour; tu en mangeras de temps à autre.

11 L'eau que tu boiras aura la mesure d'un sixième de hin; tu boiras de temps à autre.

12 Tu mangeras des gâteaux d'orge, que tu feras cuire en leur présence avec des excréments humains.

13 Et l'Eternel dit: C'est ainsi que les enfants d'Israël mangeront leur pain souillé, parmi les nations vers lesquelles je les chasserai.

14 Je dis: Ah! Seigneur Eternel, voici, mon âme n'a point été souillée; depuis ma jeunesse jusqu'à présent, je n'ai pas mangé d'une bête morte ou déchirée, et aucune chair impure n'est entrée dans ma bouche.