Ezek.4.1
Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and pourtray upon it the city, even Jerusalem:
Ezek.4.1
"Now, son of man, take a brick and place it before you. Draw a picture of the city Jerusalem on it.
Ezek.4.1
"Now, son of man, take a clay tablet, put it in front of you and draw the city of Jerusalem on it.
Ezek.4.1
"You also, son of man, take a clay tablet and lay it before you, and portray on it a city, Jerusalem.
Ezek.4.1
"And now, son of man, take a large brick and set it down in front of you. Then draw a map of the city of Jerusalem on it.
Ezek.4.2
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 battering rams against it round about.
Ezek.4.2
Then make a model of a military siege against the brick: Build siege walls, construct a ramp, set up army camps, lay in battering rams around it.
Ezek.4.2
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.
Ezek.4.2
Lay siege against it, build a siege wall against it, and heap up a mound against it; set camps against it also, and place battering rams against it all around.
Ezek.4.2
Build siege ramps against the city walls. Surround it with enemy camps and battering rams.
Ezek.4.3
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.
Ezek.4.3
Then get an iron skillet and place it upright between you and the city--an iron wall. Face the model: The city shall be under siege and you shall be the besieger. This is a sign to the family of Israel.
Ezek.4.3
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 house of Israel.
Ezek.4.3
Moreover take for yourself an iron plate, and set it as an iron wall between you and the city. Set your face against it, and it shall be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it. This will be a sign to the house of Israel.
Ezek.4.3
Then take an iron griddle and place it between you and the city. Turn toward it and demonstrate how the enemy will attack Jerusalem. This will be a warning to the people of Israel.
Ezek.4.4
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.
Ezek.4.4
"Next lie on your left side and place the sin of the family of Israel on yourself. You will bear their sin for as many days as you lie on your side.
Ezek.4.4
"Then lie on your left side and put the sin of the house of Israel upon yourself. You are to bear their sin for the number of days you lie on your side.
Ezek.4.4
"Lie also on your left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it. According to the number of the days that you lie on it, you shall bear their iniquity.
Ezek.4.4
"Now lie on your left side and place the sins of Israel on yourself. You are to bear their sins for the number of days you lie there on your side.
Ezek.4.5
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.
Ezek.4.5
The number of days you bear their sin will match the number of years of their sin, namely, 390. For 390 days you will bear the sin of the family of Israel.
Ezek.4.5
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 house of Israel.
Ezek.4.5
For I have laid on you the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days; so you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.
Ezek.4.5
You will bear Israel's sins for 390 days--one day for each year of their sin.
Ezek.4.6
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.
Ezek.4.6
"Then, after you have done this, turn over and lie down on your right side and bear the sin of the family of Judah. Your assignment this time is to lie there for forty days, a day for each year of their sin.
Ezek.4.6
"After you have finished this, lie down again, this time on your right side, and bear the sin of the house of Judah. I have assigned you 40 days, a day for each year.
Ezek.4.6
And when you have completed them, lie again on your right side; then you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days. I have laid on you a day for each year.
Ezek.4.6
After that, turn over and lie on your right side for 40 days--one day for each year of Judah's sin.
Ezek.4.7
Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and thine arm shall be uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against it.
Ezek.4.7
Look straight at the siege of Jerusalem. Roll up your sleeve, shake your bare arm, and preach against her.
Ezek.4.7
Turn your face toward the siege of Jerusalem and with bared arm prophesy against her.
Ezek.4.7
"Therefore you shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem; your arm shall be uncovered, and you shall prophesy against it.
Ezek.4.7
"Meanwhile, continue your demonstration of the siege of Jerusalem. Lie there with your arm bared and prophesy her destruction.
Ezek.4.8
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.
Ezek.4.8
"I will tie you up with ropes, tie you so you can't move or turn over until you have finished the days of the siege.
Ezek.4.8
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.
Ezek.4.8
And surely I will restrain you so that you cannot turn from one side to another till you have ended the days of your siege.
Ezek.4.8
I will tie you up with ropes so you won't be able to turn from side to side until the days of your siege have been completed.
Ezek.4.9
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.
Ezek.4.9
"Next I want you to take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, dried millet and spelt, and mix them in a bowl to make a flat bread. This is your food ration for the 390 days you lie on your side.
Ezek.4.9
"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.
Ezek.4.9
"Also take for yourself wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt; put them into one vessel, and make bread of them for yourself. During the number of days that you lie on your side, three hundred and ninety days, you shall eat it.
Ezek.4.9
"Now go and get some wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt, and mix them together in a storage jar. Use this food to make bread for yourself during the 390 days you will be lying on your side.
Ezek.4.10
And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it.
Ezek.4.10
Measure out about half a pound for each day and eat it on schedule.
Ezek.4.10
Weigh out twenty shekels of food to eat each day and eat it at set times.
Ezek.4.10
And your food which you eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day; from time to time you shall eat it.
Ezek.4.10
Ration this out to yourself, eight ounces of food for each day, and eat it at set times.
Ezek.4.11
Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.
Ezek.4.11
Also measure out your daily ration of about a pint of water and drink it on schedule.
Ezek.4.11
Also measure out a sixth of a hin of water and drink it at set times.
Ezek.4.11
You shall also drink water by measure, one-sixth of a hin; from time to time you shall drink.
Ezek.4.11
Then measure out a jar of water for each day, and drink it at set times.
Ezek.4.12
And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight.
Ezek.4.12
Eat the bread as you would a muffin. Bake the muffins out in the open where everyone can see you, using dried human dung for fuel."
Ezek.4.12
Eat the food as you would a barley cake; bake it in the sight of the people, using human excrement for fuel."
Ezek.4.12
And you shall eat it as barley cakes; and bake it using fuel of human waste in their sight."
Ezek.4.12
Each day prepare your bread as you would barley cakes. While all the people are watching, bake it over a fire using dried human dung as fuel and then eat the bread.
Ezek.4.13
And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them.
Ezek.4.13
GOD said, "This is what the people of Israel are going to do: Among the pagan nations where I will drive them, they will eat foods that are strictly taboo to a holy people."
Ezek.4.13
The LORD said, "In this way the people of Israel will eat defiled food among the nations where I will drive them."
Ezek.4.13
Then the LORD said, "So shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, where I will drive them."
Ezek.4.13
For this is what the LORD says: Israel will eat defiled bread in the Gentile lands, where I will banish them!"
Ezek.4.14
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.
Ezek.4.14
I said, "GOD, my Master! Never! I've never contaminated myself with food like that. Since my youth I've never eaten anything forbidden by law, nothing found dead or violated by wild animals. I've never taken a single bite of forbidden food."
Ezek.4.14
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 unclean meat has ever entered my mouth."
Ezek.4.14
So I said, "Ah, Lord GOD! Indeed I have never defiled myself from my youth till now; I have never eaten what died of itself or was torn by beasts, nor has abominable flesh ever come into my mouth."
Ezek.4.14
Then I said, "O Sovereign LORD, must I be defiled by using human dung? For I have never been defiled before. From the time I was a child until now I have never eaten any animal that died of sickness or that I found dead. And I have never eaten any of the animals that our laws forbid."
Ezek.4.15
Then he said unto me, Lo, I have given thee cow's dung for man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith.
Ezek.4.15
"All right," he said. "I'll let you bake your bread over cow dung instead of human dung."
Ezek.4.15
"Very well," he said, "I will let you bake your bread over cow manure instead of human excrement."
Ezek.4.15
Then He said to me, "See, I am giving you cow dung instead of human waste, and you shall prepare your bread over it."
Ezek.4.15
"All right," the LORD said. "You may bake your bread with cow dung instead of human dung."
Ezek.4.16
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:
Ezek.4.16
Then he said to me, "Son of man, I'm going to cut off all food from Jerusalem. The people will live on starvation rations, worrying where the next meal's coming from, scrounging for the next drink of water.
Ezek.4.16
He then said to me: "Son of man, I will cut off the supply of food in Jerusalem. The people will eat rationed food in anxiety and drink rationed water in despair,
Ezek.4.16
Moreover He said to me, "Son of man, surely I will cut off the supply of bread in Jerusalem; they shall eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and shall drink water by measure and with dread,
Ezek.4.16
Then he told me, "Son of man, I will cause food to be very scarce in Jerusalem. It will be weighed out with great care and eaten fearfully. The water will be portioned out drop by drop, and the people will drink it with dismay.
Ezek.4.17
That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.
Ezek.4.17
Famine conditions. People will look at one another, see nothing but skin and bones, and shake their heads. This is what sin does."
Ezek.4.17
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.
Ezek.4.17
that they may lack bread and water, and be dismayed with one another, and waste away because of their iniquity.
Ezek.4.17
Food and water will be so scarce that the people will look at one another in terror, and they will waste away under their punishment.
