1 GLT “But you, son of man, take a brick for yourself and place it before you. Then carve the city of Jerusalem on it. BSB BSB: “Now you, son of man, take a brick, place it before you, and draw on it the city of Jerusalem.
2 GLT Then lay siege against it, and build forts against it. Raise up an assault ramp against it and set camps around it. Place battering rams all around it. BSB BSB: Then lay siege against it: Construct a siege wall, build a ramp to it, set up camps against it, and place battering rams around it on all sides.
3 GLT Then take for yourself an iron pan and use it as an iron wall between yourself and the city and set your face against it, for it will be under siege, and you are to put the siege against it. This will be a sign to the house of Israel. BSB BSB: Then take an iron plate and set it up as an iron wall between yourself and the city. Turn your face toward it so that it is under siege, and besiege it. This will be a sign to the house of Israel.
5 GLT I myself am assigning to you one day to represent each year of their punishment: 390 days! In this way, you will carry the sin of the house of Israel. BSB BSB: For I have assigned to you 390 days, according to the number of years of their iniquity. So you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.
6 GLT When you have completed these days, then lie down a second time on your right side, for you will carry the sin of the house of Judah for forty days. I am assigning to you one day for each year. BSB BSB: When you have completed these days, lie down again, but on your right side, and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah. I have assigned to you 40 days, a day for each year.
7 GLT Set your face toward Jerusalem that is under siege, and with your arm uncovered prophesy against it. BSB BSB: You must turn your face toward the siege of Jerusalem with your arm bared, and prophesy against it.
8 GLT For behold! I am placing bonds on you so you will not turn from one side to the other until you have completed the days of your siege. BSB BSB: Now behold, I will tie you up with ropes so you cannot turn from side to side until you have finished the days of your siege.
9 GLT Take for yourself wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt; put them in a single container and make bread for yourself according to the number of the days that you will lie upon your side. For 390 days you will eat it. BSB BSB: But take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt; put them in a single container and make them into bread for yourself. This is what you are to eat during the 390 days you lie on your side.
10 GLT The food you will eat will be by weight, twenty shekels per day, and you will eat it at set times each day. BSB BSB: You are to weigh out twenty shekels of food to eat each day, and you are to eat it at set times.
11 GLT Then you will drink water, measured out to a sixth of a hin, and you will drink it at set times. BSB BSB: You are also to measure out a sixth of a hin of water to drink, and you are to drink it at set times.
12 GLT You will eat it as barley cakes, but you will bake it on excrement of human dung within their sight!” BSB BSB: And you shall eat the food as you would a barley cake, after you bake it over dried human excrement in the sight of the people.”
13 GLT For Yahweh says,“This means that the bread that the people of Israel will eat will be unclean, there among the nations where I will banish them.” BSB BSB: Then the LORD said, “This is how the Israelites will eat their defiled bread among the nations to which I will banish them.”
14 GLT But I said,“Alas, Lord Yahweh! I have never been unclean! I have never eaten either anything that died or anything killed by animals, from my youth until now, and foul meat has never entered my mouth!” BSB BSB: “Ah, Lord GOD,” I said, “I have never defiled myself. From my youth until now I have not eaten anything found dead or mauled by wild beasts. No unclean meat has ever entered my mouth.”
15 GLT So he said to me,“Look! I have given you cow manure instead of human dung so you can prepare your bread over that.” BSB BSB: “Look,” He replied, “I will let you use cow dung instead of human excrement, and you may bake your bread over that.”
16 GLT He also said to me,“Son of man! Behold! I am breaking the staff of bread in Jerusalem, and they will eat bread while rationing it in anxiety and drink water while rationing it in trembling. BSB BSB: Then He told me, “Son of man, I am going to cut off the supply of food in Jerusalem. They will anxiously eat bread rationed by weight, and in despair they will drink water by measure.
17 GLT Because they will lack bread and water, every man will be dismayed at his brother and waste away because of their iniquity.” BSB BSB: So they will lack food and water; they will be appalled at the sight of one another wasting away in their iniquity.
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