以西結書 4

1 「人子啊，你要拿一塊磚，擺在你面前，將一座耶路撒冷城畫在其上，

Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and portray upon it a city, even Jerusalem.

2 又圍困這城，造臺築壘，安營攻擊，在四圍安設撞錘攻城，

And lay siege against it, and build forts against it, and cast up a mound against it. Also set camps against it, and plant battering rams against it round about.

3 又要拿個鐵鏊，放在你和城的中間，作為鐵牆。你要對面攻擊這城，使城被困；這樣，好作以色列家的預兆。

And take thou to thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city. And set thy face toward it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shall lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.

4 「你要向左側臥，承當以色列家的罪孽；要按你向左側臥的日數，擔當他們的罪孽。

Moreover lie thou upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it. According to the number of the days that thou shall lie upon it, thou shall bear their iniquity.

5 因為我已將他們作孽的年數定為你向左側臥的日數，就是三百九十日，你要這樣擔當以色列家的罪孽。

For I have appointed the years of their iniquity to be a number of days to thee, even three hundred and ninety days. So thou shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.

6 再者，你滿了這些日子，還要向右側臥，擔當猶大家的罪孽。我給你定規側臥四十日，一日頂一年。

And again, when thou have accomplished these, thou shall lie on thy right side, and shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days, each day for a year. I have appointed it to thee.

7 你要露出膀臂，面向被困的耶路撒冷，說預言攻擊這城。

And thou shall set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, with thine arm uncovered, and thou shall prophesy against it.

8 我用繩索捆綁你，使你不能輾轉，直等你滿了困城的日子。

And, behold, I lay bands upon thee, and thou shall not turn thee from one side to the other, till thou have accomplished the days of thy siege.

9 「你要取小麥、大麥、豆子、紅豆、小米、粗麥，裝在一個器皿中，用以為自己做餅；要按你側臥的三百九十日吃這餅。

Also take thou to thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread of it, according to the number of the days that thou shall lie upon thy side, even three hundred and ninety days, thou shall eat of it.

10 你所吃的要按分兩吃，每日二十舍客勒，按時而吃。

And thy food which thou shall eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day. Thou shall eat it from time to time.

11 你喝水也要按制子，每日喝一欣六分之一，按時而喝。

And thou shall drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin. Thou shall drink from time to time.

12 你吃這餅像吃大麥餅一樣，要用人糞在眾人眼前燒烤。」

And thou shall eat it as barley cakes, and thou shall bake it in their sight with dung that comes out of man.

13 耶和華說：「以色列人在我所趕他們到的各國中，也必這樣吃不潔淨的食物。」

And Jehovah said, Even thus shall the sons of Israel eat their bread unclean among the nations where I will drive them.

14 我說：「哎！主耶和華啊，我素來未曾被玷污，從幼年到如今沒有吃過自死的，或被野獸撕裂的，那可憎的肉也未曾入我的口。」

Then I said, Ah lord Jehovah! Behold, my soul has not been polluted. For from my youth up even till now I have not eaten of that which dies of itself, or is torn of beasts, neither has abominable flesh come into my mouth.

15 於是他對我說：「看哪，我給你牛糞代替人糞，你要將你的餅烤在其上。」

Then he said to me, See, I have given thee cow's dung for man's dung, and thou shall prepare thy bread of it.

16 他又對我說：「人子啊，我必在耶路撒冷折斷他們的杖，就是斷絕他們的糧。他們吃餅要按分兩，憂慮而吃；喝水也要按制子，驚惶而喝；

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 fearfulness, and they shall drink water by measure, and in dismay,

17 使他們缺糧缺水，彼此驚惶，因自己的罪孽消滅。」

that they may lack bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.