Jubilee Bible 2000 JUB
New International Version NIV
1 Thou also, son of man, take a tile and lay it before thee and portray upon it the city of Jerusalem
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“Now, son of man, take a block of clay, put it in front of you and draw the city of Jerusalem on it.
2 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 <em>battering</em> rams against it round about.
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Then lay siege to it: Erect siege works against it, build a ramp up to it, set up camps against it and put battering rams around it.
3 And take an iron pan and set it <em>for</em> a wall of iron between thee and the city; and set thy face against it and it shall be for an encompassment, and thou shalt lay siege against the <em>city</em>. This <em>shall be</em> a sign to the house of Israel.
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Then take an iron pan, place it as an iron wall between you and the city and turn your face toward it. It will be under siege, and you shall besiege it. This will be a sign to the people of Israel.
4 Thou shalt sleep upon thy left side and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it; <em>according</em> to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it, thou shalt bear their iniquity.
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“Then lie on your left side and put the sin of the people of Israel upon yourself. You are to bear their sin for the number of days you lie on your side.
5 For I have summed up <em>for</em> 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.
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I have assigned you the same number of days as the years of their sin. So for 390 days you will bear the sin of the people of Israel.
6 And when thou hast accomplished them, thou shalt sleep on thy right side <em>this</em> second time, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: <em>a</em> day for <em>a</em> year; I have appointed thee <em>each</em> day for <em>a</em> year.
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“After you have finished this, lie down again, this time on your right side, and bear the sin of the people of Judah. I have assigned you 40 days, a day for each year.
7 Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and thine arm <em>shall be</em> uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against her.
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Turn your face toward the siege of Jerusalem and with bared arm prophesy against her.
8 And, behold, I laced bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn from one side to another until thou hast ended the days <em>appointed thee</em> upon thy sides.
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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.
9 Take also unto thee wheat and barley and beans and lentils and millet and fitches and put them in one vessel and make thee bread thereof, <em>according</em> to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.
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“Take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and spelt; 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.
10 And thy food which thou shalt eat <em>shall be</em> by weight, twenty shekels a day; from time to time shalt thou eat it.
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Weigh out twenty shekels of food to eat each day and eat it at set times.
11 Thou shalt also drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin; from time to time shalt thou drink.
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Also measure out a sixth of a hin of water and drink it at set times.
12 And thou shalt eat barley cakes baked under the ashes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that comes out of man, in their sight.
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Eat the food as you would a loaf of barley bread; bake it in the sight of the people, using human excrement for fuel.”
13 And the LORD said, Even thus shall the sons of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, where I will drive them.
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The LORD said, “In this way the people of Israel will eat defiled food among the nations where I will drive them.”
14 Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul is not defiled: for from my youth up even until now have I not eaten of that which dies of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither has abominable flesh come into my mouth.
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Then I said, “Not so, Sovereign LORD! I have never defiled myself. From my youth until now I have never eaten anything found dead or torn by wild animals. No impure meat has ever entered my mouth.”
15 Then he said unto me, Behold, I give thee cow’s dung for man’s dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread with it.
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“Very well,” he said, “I will let you bake your bread over cow dung instead of human excrement.”
16 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I break the sustenance of bread in Jerusalem; and they shall eat bread by weight, and with anguish; and they shall drink water by measure, and with terror.
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He then said to me: “Son of man, I am about to cut off the food supply in Jerusalem. The people will eat rationed food in anxiety and drink rationed water in despair,
17 For they shall lack bread and water, and terrorize one another, and faint because of their iniquity.
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for food and water will be scarce. They will be appalled at the sight of each other and will waste away because of their sin.
The Jubilee Bible (from the Scriptures of the Reformation), edited by Russell M. Stendal, Copyright © 2000, 2001, 2010
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