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 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 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 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 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 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 And you shall turn your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and your arm shall be extended. And you shall prophesy against it.
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 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 But your food, which you will eat, shall be in weight twenty staters a day. You shall eat it from time to time.
11 And you shall drink water by measure, one sixth part of a hin. You shall drink it from time to time.
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 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 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 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 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 So then, when bread and water fail, each one may fall against his brother. And they shall waste away in their iniquities.”
Versículos relacionados com Ezekiel, 4:
Ezekiel 4 narrates an episode in which God commands the prophet to make a symbolic representation of the siege and the fall of Jerusalem. Ezekiel is instructed to lie aside for a certain number of days to symbolize the years of punishment that the city would face. The chapter also describes the restricted diet that God commands Ezekiel to follow during this time of punishment. Below are five verses related to the topics covered in Ezekiel 4:
Leviticus 26:18-19: "And if you still do not hear me, I will increase seven times more the pests about you according to your sins. Your land like bronze. " This verse highlights the relationship between disobedience and punishment of God, which is a central theme in Ezekiel 4.
Isaiah 20:2-3: "At the same time the Lord spoke through Isaiah the son of Amos, saying, Go, let the ciliciary of thy loins loose and barefoot the shoes of your feet. And he did so, going naked and Barefoot. And the Lord said, Just as my servant Isaiah was naked and barefoot for three years, as a sign and prodigy against Egypt and against Ethiopia ... "This verse makes a connection with the symbolism of nudity and lack of Shoes that Ezekiel is ordered to follow as a way to signal the punishment that Jerusalem would face.
2 Kings 25:1-3: "And it happened that, in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, at ten of the month, he came Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and camped against it and they raised against her trenches around. And the city was surrounded to the Undécimo year of King Zedekiah. At nine of the month, when hunger was strong in the city, there was no bread for the people of the earth. " This verse describes the siege of Jerusalem by the Babylonians, a historical event that is symbolized in the representation that Ezekiel is ordered to do.
Deuteronomy 28:53: "Then thou shalt eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of thy children, and thy daughters that the Lord thy God has given you, in the siege, and the squeeze with which your enemies shall tighten you." This verse highlights the theme of the hunger and scarcity of foods that Ezekiel is ordered to experiment as part of his symbolic representation of the siege of Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 14:15: “Therefore, thus saith the Lord about the prophets who prophesy in my name, without sending them, and who say, 'There will be no sword or hunger on this earth': Sword and Hunger will be consumed these Prophets. ” Ezekiel's chapter 4 deals with God's vision by instructing the prophet to represent Jerusalem's siege with symbolic acts, such as laying aside by a specific number of days. The selected verses are related to prophecy, which is one of Ezekiel's main messages. In Jeremiah 14:15, there is a condemnation of the prophets who speak in the name of God without being sent by Him, announcing false words of hope, which can be interpreted as a warning for the prophets to be faithful in their message.
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