Ezekiel 4:9-17

9 “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 Weigh out twenty shekels[a] of food to eat each day and eat it at set times.
11 Also measure out a sixth of a hin[b] of water and drink it at set times.
12 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 The LORD said, “In this way the people of Israel will eat defiled food among the nations where I will drive them.”
14 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 “Very well,” he said, “I will let you bake your bread over cow dung instead of human excrement.”
16 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 food and water will be scarce. They will be appalled at the sight of each other and will waste away because of[c] their sin.

Cross References 12

  • 1. S Isaiah 28:25
  • 2. S Exodus 30:13
  • 3. ver 16
  • 4. S Isaiah 36:12
  • 5. Hosea 9:3; Amos 7:17
  • 6. Jeremiah 1:6; Ezekiel 9:8; Ezekiel 20:49
  • 7. S Leviticus 11:39
  • 8. S Exodus 22:31; Deuteronomy 14:3; Deuteronomy 32:37-38; Daniel 1:8; Hosea 9:3-4; Acts 10:14
  • 9. S Psalms 105:16; Ezekiel 5:16
  • 10. ver 10-11; S Leviticus 26:26; Isaiah 3:1; Ezekiel 12:19
  • 11. Lamentations 5:4; Ezekiel 5:16; Ezekiel 12:18-19; Amos 4:8
  • 12. S Leviticus 26:39; Ezekiel 24:23; Ezekiel 33:10

Footnotes 3

  • [a]. That is, about 8 ounces or about 230 grams
  • [b]. That is, about 2/3 quart or about 0.6 liter
  • [c]. Or "away in"
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