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Thou also, son of man , take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and pourtray upon it the city , even Jerusalem ;
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And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it on every side .
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Moreover take thou to thee an iron pan , and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city : and set thy face against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel .
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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 .
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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 .
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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.
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Therefore thou shalt set thy face towards the siege of Jerusalem , and thy arm shall be uncovered , and thou shalt prophesy against it.
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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.
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Take thou also to thee wheat , and barley , and beans , and lentils , and millet , and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side , three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat of it.
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And thy food which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day : from time to time shalt thou eat it.
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Thou shalt drink also water by measure , the sixth part of a hin : from time to time shalt thou drink .
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And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with human excrement in their sight .
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And the LORD said , Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles , whither I will drive them.
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Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul hath not been polluted : for from my youth even till now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither hath abominable flesh come into my mouth .
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Then he said to me, Lo, I have given thee cow 's dung for man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread with them.
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Moreover he said to 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.
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That they may want bread and water , and be astonished one with another, and consume away for their iniquity .