Ezekiel 4

DOUAI-RHEIMS	NEW AMERICAN BIBLE
1 And thou, O son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee: and draw upon it the plan of the city of Jerusalem.	1 As for you, son of man, take a clay tablet; lay it in front of you, and draw on it a city (Jerusalem).
2 And lay siege against it, and build forts, and cast up a mount, and set a camp against it, and place battering rams round about it.	2 Raise a siege against it: build a tower, lay out a ramp, pitch camps, and set up batteringrams all around.
3 And take unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city: and set thy face resolutely against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it: it is a sign to the house of Israel.	3 Then take an iron griddle and set it up as an iron wall between you and the city. Fix your gaze on it: it shall be in the state of siege, and you shall besiege it. This shall be a sign for the house of Israel.
4 And thou shalt sleep upon thy left side, and shalt lay the iniquities of the house of Israel upon it, according to the number of the days that thou shalt sleep upon it, and thou shalt take upon thee their iniquity.	4 Then you shall lie on your left side, while I place the sins of the house of Israel upon you. As many days as you lie thus, you shall bear their sins.
5 And I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days three hundred and ninety days: and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.	5 For the years of their sins I allot you the same number of days, three hundred and ninety, during which you will bear the sins of the house of Israel.
6 And when thou hast accomplished this, thou shalt sleep again upon thy right side, and thou shalt take upon thee the iniquity of the house of Juda forty days: a day for it year, yea, a day for a year I have appointed to thee.	6 When you finish this, you are to lie down again, but on your right side, and bear the sins of the house of Judah forty days; one day for each year I have allotted you.
7 And thou shalt turn thy face to the siege of Jerusalem, and thy arm shall be stretched out: and thou shalt prophesy against it.	7 Fixing your gaze on the siege of Jerusalem, with bared arm you shall prophesy against it.
8 Behold I have encompassed thee with bands: and thou shalt not turn thyself from one side to the other, till thou hast ended the days of thy siege.	8 See, I will bind you with cords so that you cannot turn from one side to the other until you have completed the days of your siege.
9 And take to thee wheat and barley, and beans, and lentils, 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.	9 Again, take wheat and barley, and beans and lentils, and millet and spelt; put them in a single vessel and make bread out of them. Eat it for as many days as you lie upon your side, three hundred and ninety.
10 And thy meat that thou shalt eat, shall be in weight twenty staters a day: from time to time thou shalt eat it.	10 The food you eat shall be twenty shekels a day by weight; each day the same.
11 And thou shalt drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time to time thou shalt drink it,	11 And the water you drink shall be the sixth of a hin by measure; each day the same.
12 And thou shalt eat it as barley bread baked under the ashes: and thou shalt cover it, in their sight, with the dung that cometh out of a man.	12 For your food you must bake barley loaves over human excrement in their sight, said the LORD.
13 And the Lord said: So shall the children of Israel Beat their bread all filthy among the nations whither I will cast them out.	13 Thus the Israelites shall eat their food unclean among the nations where I scatter them.
14 And I said: Ah, ah, ah, O Lord God, behold my soul hath not been defiled, and from my infancy even till now, I have not eaten any thing that died of itself, or was torn by beasts, and no unclean flesh hath entered into my mouth.	14 "Oh no, Lord GOD!" I protested. "Never have I been made unclean, and from my youth till now, never have I eaten carrion flesh or that torn by wild beasts; never has any unclean meat entered my mouth."
15 And he said to me: Behold I have given thee neat's dung for man's dung, and thou shalt make thy bread therewith.	15 Very well, he replied, I allow you cow's dung in place of human excrement; bake your bread on that.
16 And he said to me: Son of man: Behold, I will break in pieces the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care: and they shall drink water by measure, and in distress.	16 Then he said to me: Son of man, I am breaking the staff of bread in Jerusalem. They shall eat bread which they have weighed out anxiously, and they shall drink water which they have measured out fearfully,
17 So that when bread and water fail, every man may fall against his brother, and they may pine away in their iniquities.	17 so that, owing to the scarcity of bread and water, everyone shall be filled with terror and waste away because of his sins.