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The Siege of Jerusalem Symbolized

¹ "And you, ^(a)son of man, ^(b)take a brick and lay it before you, and engrave on it a city, even Jerusalem. ^2 (c)And put siegeworks against it, ^(d)and build a siege wall against it, ^(e)and cast up a mound against it. Set camps also against it, ^(f)and plant battering rams against it all around. ³ And you, take an iron griddle, and place it as an iron wall between you and the city; ^(g)and set your face toward it, ^(h)and let it be in a state of siege, and press the siege against it. This is ⁽ⁱ⁾a sign for the house of Israel.

⁴ "Then lie on your left side, and place the punishment^[a] of the house of Israel upon it. For the number of the days that you lie on it, ^(j)you shall bear their punishment. ⁵ For I assign to you a number of days, ^(k)390 days, ^(l)equal to the number of the years of their punishment. ^(m)So long shall you bear ⁽ⁿ⁾the punishment of the house of Israel. ⁶ And when you have completed these, you shall lie down a second time, but on your right side, and ^(o)bear ^(p)the punishment of the house of Judah. ^(q)Forty days I assign you, a day for each year. ^7 (r)And you shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, ^(s)with your arm bared, and you shall prophesy against the city. ⁸ And behold, ^(t)I will place cords upon you, so that you cannot turn from one side to the other, till you have completed ^(u)the days of your siege.

⁹ "And you, take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and emmer,^[b] and put them into a single vessel and make your ^(v)bread from them. ^(w)During the number of days that you lie on your side, ^(x)390 days, you shall eat it. ¹⁰ And your food that you eat shall be ^(y)by weight, ^(z)twenty shekels^[c] a day; from day to day^[d] you shall eat it. ¹¹ And water you shall drink ^(aa)by measure, the sixth part of a hin;^[e] from day to day you shall drink. ¹² And you shall eat it as a barley cake, baking it ^(ab)in their sight on human dung." ¹³ And the Lord said, "Thus shall the people of Israel eat ^(ac)their bread unclean, among the nations where I will drive them." ¹⁴ Then I said, ^(ad)"Ah, Lord God! Behold, I have never defiled myself.^{[f] (ae)}From my youth up till now I have never eaten ^(af)what died of itself or was torn by beasts, nor has ^(ag)tainted meat come into my mouth." ¹⁵ Then he said to me, "See, I assign to you cow's dung instead of human dung, on which you may prepare your bread." ¹⁶ Moreover, he said to me, ^(ah)"Son of man, behold, ^(ai)I will break the supply^[g] of bread in Jerusalem. They shall eat bread ^(aj)by weight and with anxiety, and they shall drink water ^(ak)by measure and in dismay. ¹⁷ I will do this that they may lack bread and water, and ^(al)look at one another in dismay, and ^(am)rot away because of their punishment.