1 And you, son of man, take a back and put it before you and on it make a picture of a town, even Jerusalem.2 And make an attack on it, shutting it in, building strong places against it, and making high an earthwork against it; and put up tents against it, placing engines all round it for smashing down its walls.3 And take a flat iron plate, and put it for a wall of iron between you and the town: and let your face be turned to it, and it will be shut in and you will make an attack on it. This will be a sign to the children of Israel.4 Then, stretching yourself out on your left side, take the sin of the children of Israel on yourself: for as long as you are stretched out, so long will the sin of the children of Israel be on you.5 For I have had the years of their sin measured for you by a number of days, even three hundred and ninety days: and you will take on yourself the sin of the children of Israel.6 And when these days are ended, turning on your right side, you are to take on yourself the sin of the children of Judah: forty days, a day for a year, I have had it fixed for you.7 And let your face be turned to where Jerusalem is shut in, with your arm uncovered, and be a prophet against it.8 And see, I will put bands on you; and you will be stretched out without turning from one side to the other till the days of your attack are ended.9 And take for yourself wheat and barley and different sorts of grain, and put them in one vessel and make bread for yourself from them; all the days when you are stretched on your side it will be your food.10 And you are to take your food by weight, twenty shekels a day: you are to take it at regular times.11 And you are to take water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: you are to take it at regular times.12 And let your food be barley cakes, cooking it before their eyes with the waste which comes out of a man.13 And the Lord said, Even so the children of Israel will have unclean bread for their food among the nations where I am driving them.14 Then I said, Ah, Lord! see, my soul has never been unclean, and I have never taken as my food anything which has come to a natural death or has been broken by beasts, from the time when I was young even till now; no disgusting flesh has ever come into my mouth.15 Then he said to me, See, I have given you cow's waste in place of man's waste, and you will make your bread ready on it.16 And he said to me, Son of man, see, I will take away from Jerusalem her necessary bread: they will take their bread by weight and with care, measuring out their drinking-water with fear and wonder:17 So that they may be in need of bread and water and be wondering at one another, wasting away in their sin.

1 "人子啊！ 你要拿一块砖头， 放在你面前， 在上面刻一座城， 代表耶路撒冷。 2 然后安放围城设施， 建造围城高墙， 筑起攻城土垒， 摆列兵营， 四周架起攻城锤。 3 你又要拿一个铁的煎盘， 放在你和城的中间当作铁墙。你要面向着城， 象征城要被围困， 你就是围攻那城的。这要作以色列家的预兆。 4 "你要向左边侧卧， 承担以色列家的罪孽。你向左边侧卧多少日子， 你担当他们的罪孽也是多少日子。 5 我已经给你定了日子的数目， 就是三百九十天， 等于他们作孽的年数， 你要在这些日子担当以色列家的罪孽。 6 这些日子满了以后， 你要再向右边侧卧， 担当犹大家的罪孽， 我已经给你定了四十天， 一天等于一年。 7 你要面向着被围困的耶路撒冷， 赤露着膀臂， 说预言攻击这城。 8 我要用绳子把你捆绑起来， 使你不能转身， 直等到你围困城的日子满了。 9 "你要拿小麦、大麦、豆子、扁豆、粟米和粗麦， 放在一个器皿里， 给自己做饼。在你侧卧的三百九十天里， 你都要吃这些饼。 10 你所吃的食物要有一定分量， 每天二百三十克， 要在指定的时候吃。 11 你喝的水也要有一定分量， 每天半公升， 要在指定的时候喝。 12 你吃这些饼， 要像吃烙的大麦饼一样， 但要用人粪在众人面前烧烤。" 13 耶和华说： "以色列人在我赶他们去的列国中， 也要这样吃不洁净的食物。" 14 我说： "主耶和华啊！ 我从来没有玷污过自己。我从小到现在都没有吃过已经死去的， 或是野兽撕裂的动物， 不洁净的肉从没有进过我的口。" 15 于是他对我说： "你看， 我准你用牛粪代替人粪， 你可以在牛粪上烤你的饼。" 16 他又对我说： "人子啊， 我要断绝耶路撒冷的粮食。他们要满心忧虑， 吃配给的口粮； 十分惊惶， 喝配给的水。 17 他们缺粮缺水， 各人都必惊惶， 因自己的罪孽衰弱而死。"