Ezechiele 4:12

12 Mangerai delle focacce d’orzo, che cuocerai in loro presenza con escrementi d’uomo".

Ezechiele 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:

Ezechiele 4:12 In-Context

10 Il cibo che mangerai sarà del peso di venti sicli per giorno; lo mangerai di tempo in tempo.

11 Berrai pure dell’acqua a misura: la sesta parte d’un hin; la berrai di tempo in tempo.

12 Mangerai delle focacce d’orzo, che cuocerai in loro presenza con escrementi d’uomo".

13 E l’Eterno disse: "Così i figliuoli d’Israele mangeranno il loro pane contaminato, fra le nazioni dove io li caccerò".

14 Allora io dissi: "Ahimè, Signore, Eterno, ecco, l’anima mia non è stata contaminata; dalla mia fanciullezza a ora, non ho mai mangiato carne di bestia morta da sé o sbranata, e non m’è mai entrata in bocca alcuna carne infetta".