Ezequiel 4

EL LIBRO DEL PUEBLO DE DIOS	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
1 Hijo de hombre, toma un ladrillo, colócalo delante de ti y graba sobre él la ciudad de Jerusalén.	1 “And as for you, son of man, take up for yourself a tablet, and you shall set it before you. And you shall draw upon it the city of Jerusalem.
2 Luego la sitiarás: levantarás contra ella torres de asedio, harás terraplenes, instalarás campamentos y emplazarás a su alrededor máquinas de guerra.	2 And you shall set up a blockade against it, and you shall build fortifications, and you shall put together a rampart, and you shall encamp opposite it, and you shall place battering rams around it.
3 Toma en seguida una sartén de hierro y colócala como muro de hierro entre ti y la ciudad. Mírala fijamente: ella quedará sitiada y tú serás el que la asedia. Esto es una señal para los israelitas.	3 And you shall take up for yourself an iron frying pan, and place it as an iron wall between you and the city. And harden your face against it, and it shall be under a siege, and you shall surround it. This is a sign to the house of Israel.
4 Acuéstate sobre el lado izquierdo, y yo pondré sobre ti las culpas de los israelitas; tú cargarás con sus culpas durante todo el tiempo que estés acostado sobre ese lado.	4 And you shall sleep on your left side. And you shall place the iniquities of the house of Israel on it by the number of days that you will sleep on it. And you shall take upon yourself their iniquity.
5 Yo te he fijado un número de días equivalente a los años de su iniquidad: por eso, durante trescientos noventa días cargarás con las culpas del pueblo de Israel.	5 For I have given to you the years of their iniquity, by the number of the days: three hundred and ninety days. And you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.
6 Al cabo de estos días, te acostarás por segunda vez, sobre el lado derecho, y cargarás con las culpas del pueblo de Judá durante cuarenta días: yo te he fijado un día par cada año.	6 And when you will have completed this, you shall sleep a second time, on your right side, and you shall assume the iniquity of the house of Judah for forty days: one day for each year; one day, I say, for each year, have I given to you.
7 Después dirigirás tu rostro y tu brazo desnudo hacia el asedio de Jerusalén y profetizarás contra ella.	7 And you shall turn your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and your arm shall be extended. And you shall prophesy against it.
8 Yo te ato con sogas, para que no puedas darte vuelta de un lado a otro, hasta que hayas cumplido los días de tu asedio.	8 Behold, I have surrounded you with chains. And you shall not turn yourself from one side to the other side, until you have completed the days of your siege.
9 Toma también trigo, cebada, habas, lentejas, mijo y espelta: échalos en un recipiente y prepárate con eso la comida. Tú comerás de ese pan durante todo el tiempo que estés acostado de un lado, o sea durante ciento noventa días.	9 And you shall take for yourself wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and vetch. And you shall set them in one vessel, and you shall make for yourself bread by the number of days that you will sleep upon your side: three hundred and ninety days shall you shall eat from it.
10 Cada día pesarás una ración de veinte siclos, y la comerás a una hora determinada.	10 But your food, which you will eat, shall be in weight twenty staters a day. You shall eat it from time to time.
11 También beberás el agua medida –la sexta parte de un hin– y la beberás a una hora determinada.	11 And you shall drink water by measure, one sixth part of a hin. You shall drink it from time to time.
12 Prepararás este alimento en forma de galleta de cebada y lo cocerás sobre excrementos humanos, a la vista del pueblo.	12 And you shall eat it like barley bread baked under ashes. And you shall cover it, in their sight, with the dung that goes out of a man.”
13 Y tú dirás: «así habla el Señor, el Dios de Israel: Así de impuro será el pan que comerán los israelitas, entre las naciones adonde yo los arrojaré».	13 And the Lord said: “So shall the sons of Israel eat their bread, polluted among the Gentiles, to whom I will cast them out.”
14 Entonces exclamé: ¡Señor, yo nunca he incurrido en impureza! Desde mi infancia hasta el presente, jamás he comido un animal encontrado muerto o despedazado, ni ha entrado carne impura en mi boca.	14 And I said: “Alas, alas, alas, O Lord God! Behold, my soul has not been polluted, and from my infancy even until now, I have not eaten anything that has died of itself, nor that which has been torn up by beasts, and no unclean flesh at all has entered into my mouth.”
15 El me respondió: «Está bien, te permito que en lugar de excrementos humanos uses bosta de vaca para hacer tu pan».	15 And he said to me: “Behold, I have given to you cow manure in place of human dung, and you shall make your bread with it.”
16 Luego añadió: «Hijo de hombre, yo acabaré con las reservas de pan que hay en Jerusalén: comerán angustiosamente el pan racionado y beberán ansiosamente el agua medida.	16 And he said to me: “Son of man, behold: I will crush the staff of bread in Jerusalem. And they will eat bread by weight and with anxiety. And they will drink water by measure and with anguish.
17 De esta manera, al faltar el pan y el agua, todos desfallecerán y se pudrirán a causa de sus culpas».	17 So then, when bread and water fail, each one may fall against his brother. And they shall waste away in their iniquities.”