1 'For your part, son of man, take a brick and lay it in front of you; on it scratch a city, Jerusalem.
2 You are then to besiege it, trench round it, build earthworks, pitch camps and bring up battering-rams all round.
3 Then take an iron pan and place it as though it were an iron wall between you and the city. Then fix your gaze on it; it is being besieged and you are besieging it. This is a sign for the House of Israel.
4 'Lie down on your left side and take the guilt of the House of Israel on yourself. You will bear their guilt for as many days as you lie on that side.
5 Allowing one day for every year of their guilt, I ordain that you bear it for three hundred and ninety days; this is how you will bear the House of Israel's guilt.
6 And when you have finished doing this, you are to lie down again, on your right side, and bear the guilt of the House of Judah for forty days. I have set the length for you as one day for one year.
7 Then fix your gaze on the siege of Jerusalem, raise your bared arm and prophesy against her.
8 Look, I am going to tie you up and you will not be able to turn over from one side to the other until the period of your seclusion is over.
9 'Now take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet and spelt; put them all in the same pot and make them into bread for yourself. You are to eat it for as many days as you are lying on your side -- three hundred and ninety days.
10 Of this food, you are to weigh out a daily portion of twenty shekels and eat it a little piece at a time.
11 And you are to ration the water you drink -- a sixth of a hin -- drinking that a little at a time.
12 You are to eat this in the form of a barley cake baked where they can see you, on human dung.'
13 And Yahweh said, 'This is how the Israelites will have to eat their defiled food, wherever I disperse them among the nations.'
14 I then said, 'Lord Yahweh, my soul is not defiled. From my childhood until now, I have never eaten an animal that has died a natural death or been savaged; no tainted meat has ever entered my mouth.'
15 'Very well,' he said, 'I grant you cow-dung instead of human dung; you are to bake your bread on that.'
16 He then said, 'Son of man, I am going to cut off Jerusalem's food supply; in their extremity, the food they eat will be weighed out; to their horror, the water they drink will be rationed,
17 until there is no food or water left, and they fall into a stupor and waste away because of their guilt.'
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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