Ezechielis 4

Bibbia Vulgata Clementina	New American Bible
¹ Et tu, fili hominis, sume tibi laterem, et pones eum coram te, et describes in eo civitatem 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 Et ordinabis adversus eam obsidionem, et ædificabis munitiones, et comportabis aggerem, et dabis contra eam castra, et pones arietes in gyro.	² Raise a siege against it: build a tower, lay out a ramp, pitch camps, and set up batteringrams all around.
³ Et tu sume tibi sartaginem ferream, et pones eam in murum ferreum inter te et inter civitatem : et obfirmabis faciem tuam ad eam, et erit in obsidionem, et circumdabis eam : signum est domui Israël.	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 Et tu dormies super latus tuum sinistrum, et pones iniquitates domus Israël super eo, numero dierum quibus dormies super illud : et assumes iniquitatem eorum.	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 Ego autem dedi tibi annos iniquitatis eorum, numero dierum trecentos et nonaginta dies : et portabis iniquitatem domus Israël.	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 Et cum compleveris hæc, dormies super latus tuum dexterum secundo, et assumes iniquitatem domus Juda quadraginta diebus : diem pro anno, diem, inquam, pro anno, dedi tibi.	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 Et ad obsidionem Jerusalem convertes faciem tuam, et brachium tuum erit extentum : et prophetabis adversus eam.	⁷ Fixing your gaze on the siege of Jerusalem, with bared arm you shall prophesy against it.
⁸ Ecce circumdedi te vinculis : et non te convertes a latere tuo in latus aliud, donec compleas dies obsidionis tuæ.	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 Et tu, sume tibi frumentum, et hordeum, et fabam, et lentem, et milium, et viciam : et mittes ea in vas unum, et facies tibi panes numero dierum quibus dormies super latus tuum : trecentis et nonaginta diebus comedes illud.	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 Cibus autem tuus, quo vesceris, erit in pondere viginti stateres in die : a tempore usque ad tempus comedes illud.	¹⁰ The food you eat shall be twenty shekels a day by weight; each day the same.
¹¹ Et aquam in mensura bibes, sextam partem hin : a tempore usque ad tempus bibes illud.	¹¹ And the water you drink shall be the sixth of a hin by measure; each day the same.
¹² Et quasi subcinericium hordeaceum comedes illud, et stercore quod egreditur de homine operies illud in oculis eorum.	¹² For your food you must bake barley loaves over human excrement in their sight, said the LORD.
¹³ Et dixit Dominus : Sic comedent filii Israël panem suum pollutum inter gentes ad quas ejiciam eos. Et dixi :	¹³ Thus the Israelites shall eat their food unclean among the nations where I scatter them.
¹⁴ A, a, a, Domine Deus, ecce anima mea non est polluta : et morticinum, et laceratum a bestiis non comedi ab infantia mea usque nunc, et non est ingressa in os meum omnis caro immunda.	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 Et dixit ad me : Ecce dedi tibi fimum boum pro stercoribus humanis, et facies panem tuum in eo.	¹⁵ Very well, he replied, I allow you cow's dung in place of human excrement; bake your bread on that.
¹⁶ Et dixit ad me : Fili hominis, ecce ego conteram baculum panis in Jerusalem, et comedent panem in pondere et in sollicitudine, et aquam in mensura et in angustia bibent,	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 ut deficientibus pane et aqua, corruat unusquisque ad fratrem suum, et contabescant in iniquitatibus suis.	¹⁷ so that, owing to the scarcity of bread and water, everyone shall be filled with terror and waste away because of his sins.