This shall bea sign to the house of Israel.
4 Lie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it: according
to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their iniquity.
5 For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days,
three hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.
6 And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the
iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year.
7 Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and thine arm shall be
uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against it.
8 And, behold, I will lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn thee from one side to another,
till thou hast ended the days of thy siege.
9 Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches,
and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, accordingto the number of the days
that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.
10 And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall beby weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to
time shalt thou eat it.
11 Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time to time shalt
thou drink.
12 And thou shalt eat it asbarley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of
man, in their sight.
13 And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the
Gentiles, whither I will drive them.
14 Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul hath not been polluted: for from my youth up even
till now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither came there
abominable flesh into my mouth.
15 Then he said unto me, Lo, I have given thee cow's dung for man's dung, and thou shalt prepare
thy bread therewith.
16 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem:
and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and
with astonishment:
17 That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away
for their iniquity.
1 And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife, take thee a barber's razor, and cause itto pass
upon thine head and upon thy beard: then take thee balances to weigh, and divide the hair.
2 Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are
fulfilled: and thou shalt take a third part, andsmite about it with a knife: and a third part thou
shalt scatter in the wind; and I will draw out a sword after them.
3 Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts.
4 Then take of them again, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire;
forthereof shall a fire come forth into all the house of Israel.
5 Thus saith the Lord GOD; This isJerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and
countries that areround about her.
6 And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes
more than the countries that areround about her: for they have refused my judgments and my
statutes, they have not walked in them.
7 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye multiplied more than the nations that are
round about you, andhave not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my judgments, neither
have done according to the judgments of the nations that areround about you;
8 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, amagainst thee, and will execute

judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the nations.
9 And I will do in thee that which I have not done, and whereunto I will not do any more the
like, because of all thine abominations.
10 Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their
fathers; and I will execute judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter into
all the winds.
11 Wherefore, asI live, saith the Lord GOD; Surely, because thou hast defiled my sanctuary
with all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations, therefore will I also diminish
thee; neither shall mine eye spare, neither will I have any pity.
12 A third part of thee shall die with the pestilence, and with famine shall they be consumed in
the midst of thee: and a third part shall fall by the sword round about thee; and I will scatter a
third part into all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them.
13 Thus shall mine anger be accomplished, and I will cause my fury to rest upon them, and I
will be comforted: and they shall know that I the LORD have spoken itin my zeal, when I have
accomplished my fury in them.
14 Moreover I will make thee waste, and a reproach among the nations that areround about
thee, in the sight of all that pass by.
15 So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment unto the nations
that areround about thee, when I shall execute judgments in thee in anger and in fury and in
furious rebukes. I the LORD have spoken it.
16 When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for theirdestruction,
andwhich I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break
your staff of bread:
17 So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence
and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the LORD have spoken
it.
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them,
3 And say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the
mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys; Behold, I, evenI, will bring a sword
upon you, and I will destroy your high places.
4 And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken: and I will cast down your
slain menbefore your idols.
5 And I will lay the dead carcases of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter
your bones round about your altars.
6 In all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be
desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken
and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.
7 And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and ye shall know that I amthe LORD.
8 Yet will I leave a remnant, that ye may have somethat shall escape the sword among the
nations, when ye shall be scattered through the countries.
9 And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be
carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me,
and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols: and they shall lothe themselves for
the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.
10 And they shall know that I amthe LORD, and thatI have not said in vain that I would do this
evil unto them.
11 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Smite with thine hand, and stamp with thy foot, and say, Alas for
all the evil abominations of the house of Israel! for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine,

and by the pestilence.
12 He that is far off shall die of the pestilence; and he that is near shall fall by the sword; and
he that remaineth and is besieged shall die by the famine: thus will I accomplish my fury upon
them.
13 Then shall ye know that I amthe LORD, when their slain menshall be among their idols
round about their altars, upon every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every
green tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they did offer sweet savour to all their
idols.
14 So will I stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land desolate, yea, more desolate
than the wilderness toward Diblath, in all their habitations: and they shall know that I amthe
LORD.
1 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Also, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD unto the land of Israel; An end, the end is come
upon the four corners of the land.
3 Now isthe end comeupon thee, and I will send mine anger upon thee, and will judge thee
according to thy ways, and will recompense upon thee all thine abominations.
4 And mine eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity: but I will recompense thy ways
upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee: and ye shall know that I amthe
LORD.
5 Thus saith the Lord GOD; An evil, an only evil, behold, is come.
6 An end is come, the end is come: it watcheth for thee; behold, it is come.
7 The morning is come unto thee, O thou that dwellest in the land: the time is come, the day of
trouble isnear, and not the sounding again of the mountains.
8 Now will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee, and accomplish mine anger upon thee: and I
will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense thee for all thine abominations.
9 And mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will recompense thee according to thy
ways and thine abominations thatare in the midst of thee; and ye shall know that I amthe LORD
that smiteth.
10 Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning is gone forth; the rod hath blossomed, pride
hath budded.
11 Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them shall remain, nor of their
multitude, nor of any of theirs: neither shall there bewailing for them.
12 The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn: for
wrath isupon all the multitude thereof.
13 For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, although they were yet alive: for the
vision istouching the whole multitude thereof, whichshall not return; neither shall any
strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life.
14 They have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready; but none goeth to the battle: for my
wrath isupon all the multitude thereof.
15 The sword iswithout, and the pestilence and the famine within: he that isin the field shall
die with the sword; and he that isin the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.
16 But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the
valleys, all of them mourning, every one for his iniquity.
17 All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak aswater.
18 They shall also gird themselveswith sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame
shall beupon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and
their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not
satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.