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Ezekiel 4

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Ezekiel 4 Bible text

WEB: 1WEB

“You also, son of man, take a tile, and lay it before yourself, and portray on it a city, even Jerusalem.

ASV: 1ASV

Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and portray upon it a city, even Jerusalem:

WEB: 2WEB

Lay siege against it, build forts against it, and cast up a mound against it. Also set camps against it and plant battering rams against it all around.

ASV: 2ASV

and lay siege against it, and build forts against it, and cast up a mound against it; set camps also against it, and plant battering rams against it round about.

WEB: 3WEB

Take for yourself an iron pan and set it for a wall of iron between you and the city. Then set your face toward it. It will be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.

ASV: 3ASV

And take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city: and set thy face toward it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.

WEB: 4WEB

“Moreover lie on your left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel on it. According to the number of the days that you shall lie on it, you shall bear their iniquity.

ASV: 4ASV

Moreover lie thou 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.

WEB: 5WEB

For I have appointed the years of their iniquity to be to you a number of days, even three hundred ninety days. So you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.

ASV: 5ASV

For I have appointed the years of their iniquity to be unto thee a number of days, even three hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.

WEB: 6WEB

“Again, when you have accomplished these, you shall lie on your right side, and shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah. I have appointed forty days, each day for a year, to you.

ASV: 6ASV

And again, when thou hast accomplished these, thou shalt lie on thy right side, and shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah: forty days, each day for a year, have I appointed it unto thee.

WEB: 7WEB

You shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, with your arm uncovered; and you shall prophesy against it.

ASV: 7ASV

And thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, with thine arm uncovered; and thou shalt prophesy against it.

WEB: 8WEB

Behold, I put ropes on you, and you shall not turn yourself from one side to the other, until you have accomplished the days of your siege.

ASV: 8ASV

And, behold, I lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn thee from one side to the other, till thou hast accomplished the days of thy siege.

WEB: 9WEB

“Take for yourself also wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel. Make bread of it. According to the number of the days that you will lie on your side, even three hundred ninety days, you shall eat of it.

ASV: 9ASV

Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and spelt, 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, even three hundred and ninety days, shalt thou eat thereof.

WEB: 10WEB

Your food which you shall eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day. From time to time you shall eat it.

ASV: 10ASV

And thy food which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it.

WEB: 11WEB

You shall drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin. From time to time you shall drink.

ASV: 11ASV

And thou shalt drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.

WEB: 12WEB

You shall eat it as barley cakes, and you shall bake it in their sight with dung that comes out of man.”

ASV: 12ASV

And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it in their sight with dung that cometh out of man.

WEB: 13WEB

The LORD said, “Even thus will the children of Israel eat their bread unclean, among the nations where I will drive them.”

ASV: 13ASV

And Jehovah said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their bread unclean, among the nations whither I will drive them.

WEB: 14WEB

Then I said, “Ah Lord GOD! Behold, my soul has not been polluted; for from my youth up even until now I have not eaten of that which dies of itself, or is torn of animals. No abominable meat has come into my mouth!”

ASV: 14ASV

Then said I, Ah Lord Jehovah! 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 of beasts; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.

WEB: 15WEB

Then he said to me, “Behold, I have given you cow’s dung for man’s dung, and you shall prepare your bread on it.”

ASV: 15ASV

Then he said unto me, See, I have given thee cow’s dung for man’s dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread thereon.

WEB: 16WEB

Moreover he said to me, “Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem. They will eat bread by weight, and with fearfulness. They will drink water by measure, and in dismay;

ASV: 16ASV

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 fearfulness; and they shall drink water by measure, and in dismay:

WEB: 17WEB

that they may lack bread and water, be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.

ASV: 17ASV

that they may want bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.