Ezekiel 4

ve'attah ven-adam qakh-lekha levenah venatattah otah lefanekha vekhaqqota aleha ir et-yerushalai͏m

“And you, O mortal, take a brick and put it in front of you, and incise on it a city, Jerusalem.

venatattah aleha matsor uvanita aleha dayeq veshafakhta aleha solelah venatattah aleha makhanot vesim-aleha karim saviv

Set up a siege against it, and build towers against it, and cast a mound against it; pitch camps against it, and bring up battering rams round about it.

ve'attah qakh-lekha makhavat barzel venatattah otah qir barzel benekha uven ha'ir vahakhinotah et-panekha eleha vehayetah vammatsor vetsarta aleha ot hi levet yisra'el

Then take an iron plate and place it as an iron wall between yourself and the city, and set your face against it. Thus it shall be under siege, you shall besiege it. This shall be an omen for the House of Israel.

ve'attah shekhav al-tsiddekha hassemali vesamta et-avon bet-yisra'el alayw mispar hayyamim asher tishkav alayw tissa et-avonam

“Then lie on your left side, and let it bear the punishment of the House of Israel; for as many days as you lie on it you shall bear their punishment.

va'ani natatti lekha et-shene avonam lemispar yamim shelosh-me'ot vetishim yom venasata avon bet-yisra'el

For I impose upon you three hundred and ninety days, corresponding to the number of the years of their punishment; and so you shall bear the punishment for the House of Israel.

vekhillita et-elleh veshakhavta al-tsiddekha (hymyny) [hayemani] shenit venasata et-avon bet-yehudah arba'im yom yom lashanah yom lashanah netattiv lakh

When you have completed these, you shall lie another forty days on your right side, and bear the punishment of the House of Judah. I impose on you one day for each year.

ve'el-metsor yerushalai͏m takhin panekha uzero'akha khasufah venibbeta aleha

“Then, with bared arm, set your face toward besieged Jerusalem and prophesy against it.

vehinneh natatti alekha avotim velo-tehafekh mitsiddekha el-tsiddekha ad-kallotekha yeme metsurekha

Now I put cords upon you, so that you cannot turn from side to side until you complete your days of siege.

ve'attah qakh-lekha khittin use'orim ufol va'adashim vedokhan vekhussemim venatattah otam bikhli ekhad ve'asita otam lekha lelakhem mispar hayyamim asher-attah shokhev al-tsiddekha shelosh-me'ot vetishim yom tokhelennu

“Further, take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and emmer. Put them into one vessel and bake them into bread. Eat it as many days as you lie on your side: three hundred and ninety.

uma'akhalekha asher tokhelennu bemishqol esrim sheqel layyom me'et ad-et tokhelennu

The food that you eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day; this you shall eat in the space of a day.

umayim bimsurah tishteh shishit hahin me'et ad-et tishteh

And you shall drink water by measure; drink a sixth of a hin in the space of a day.

ve'ugat se'orim tokhelennah vehi begelle tse'at ha'adam te'ugenah le'enehem

“Eat it as a barley cake; you shall bake it on human excrement before their eyes.

vayyomer Adonai kakhah yokhelu vene-yisra'el et-lakhmam tame baggoyim asher addikhem sham

So,” said GOD, “shall the people of Israel eat their bread, impure, among the nations to which I will banish them.”

va'omar ahah adonay Elohim hinneh nafshi lo metumma'ah unevelah uterefah lo-akhalti minne'uray ve'ad-attah velo-va befi besar piggul

Then I said, “Ah, my Sovereign GOD, my person was never defiled; nor have I eaten anything that died of itself or was torn by beasts from my youth until now, nor has foul flesh entered my mouth.”

vayyomer elay re'eh natatti lekha et-[tsefi'e] (tsfvy) habbaqar takhat gelle ha'adam ve'asita et-lakhmekha alehem

The answer came: “See, I allow you cow’s dung instead of human excrement; prepare your bread on that.”

vayyomer elay ben-adam hinni shover matteh-lekhem birushalai͏m ve'okhlu-lekhem bemishqal uvidagah umayim bimsurah uveshimmamon yishtu

And I was told, “O mortal, I am going to break the staff of bread in Jerusalem, and they shall eat bread by weight, in anxiety, and drink water by measure, in horror,

lema'an yakhseru lekhem vamayim venashammu ish ve'akhiv venamaqqu ba'avonam

so that, lacking bread and water, they shall stare at each other, heartsick over their iniquity.