Ezekiel 4:10–17
10Your food which you shall eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day. From time to time you shall eat it.↗
11You shall drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin. From time to time you shall drink.↗
12You shall eat it as barley cakes, and you shall bake it in their sight with dung that comes out of man.”↗
13The LORD said, “Even thus will the children of Israel eat their bread unclean, among the nations where I will drive them.”↗
14Then I said, “Ah Lord GOD! Behold, my soul has not been polluted; for from my youth up even until now I have not eaten of that which dies of itself, or is torn of animals. No abominable meat has come into my mouth!”↗
15Then he said to me, “Behold, I have given you cow’s dung for man’s dung, and you shall prepare your bread on it.”↗
16Moreover he said to me, “Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem. They will eat bread by weight, and with fearfulness. They will drink water by measure, and in dismay;↗
17that they may lack bread and water, be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.↗
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