Ezekiel 4

1 “You also, son of man, take a tile, and lay it before yourself, and portray on it a city, even Jerusalem.

Allah berkata, "Hai manusia fana, ambillah sebuah batu bata, letakkan di depanmu dan garislah di atasnya denah kota Yerusalem.

2 Lay siege against it, build forts against it, and cast up a mound against it. Also set camps against it and plant battering rams against it all around.

Lalu gambarkan suatu pengepungan terhadap kota itu, dengan parit-parit, timbunan-timbunan tanah, perkemahan-perkemahan dan alat-alat pendobrak di sekeliling temboknya.

3 Take for yourself an iron pan and set it for a wall of iron between you and the city. Then set your face towards it. It will be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.

Ambillah panci besi dan anggaplah itu sebuah dinding besi; letakkanlah panci itu di antara engkau dan kota Yerusalem. Kemudian menghadaplah ke kota itu seakan-akan engkaulah yang mengepungnya. Itu akan menjadi lambang bagi bangsa Israel.

4 “Moreover lie on your left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel on it. According to the number of the days that you shall lie on it, you shall bear their iniquity.

Lalu berbaringlah miring ke kiri, dan Aku akan menimpakan kesalahan bangsa Israel kepadamu. Selama 390 hari engkau akan berbaring begitu dan menderita sengsara karena kesalahan mereka. Sehari engkau berbaring begitu melambangkan satu tahun hukuman bangsa Israel.

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

6 “Again, when you have accomplished these, you shall lie on your right side, and shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah. I have appointed forty days, each day for a year, to you.

Setelah itu, berbaringlah miring ke kanan dan rasakanlah hukuman atas kesalahan Yehuda empat puluh hari lamanya, satu hari melambangkan satu tahun hukuman mereka.

7 You shall set your face towards the siege of Jerusalem, with your arm uncovered; and you shall prophesy against it.

Pandanglah pengepungan Yerusalem. Acungkanlah tinjumu kepada kota itu dan sampaikanlah pesan-Ku tentang hukuman bagi mereka.

8 Behold, I put ropes on you, and you shall not turn yourself from one side to the other, until you have accomplished the days of your siege.

Engkau akan Kuikat sehingga tak dapat membalikkan tubuhmu dari kiri ke kanan atau sebaliknya sampai pengepungan itu berakhir.

9 “Take for yourself also wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel. Make bread of it. According to the number of the days that you will lie on your side, even three hundred and ninety days, you shall eat of it.

Sekarang, ambillah gandum, jelai, kacang merah, kacang polong, sekoi dan gandum halus. Campurkanlah itu semua dan buatlah roti. Itulah makananmu selama 390 hari engkau berbaring miring ke kiri itu.

10 Your food which you shall eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day. From time to time you shall eat it.

Roti itu harus kaubagi sedemikian rupa sehingga setiap hari engkau makan hanya 230 gram. Lebih dari itu tak boleh.

11 You shall drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin. From time to time you shall drink.

Air minummu juga terbatas, yaitu dua cangkir sehari.

12 You shall eat it as barley cakes, and you shall bake it in their sight with dung that comes out of man.”

Buatlah api dengan kotoran manusia sebagai bahan bakarnya. Pangganglah rotimu di atas api itu dan makanlah roti itu di hadapan semua orang."

13 The LORD said, “Even thus will the children of Israel eat their bread unclean, amongst the nations where I will drive them.”

TUHAN berkata, "Begitulah caranya orang Israel kelak memakan makanan yang dilarang oleh hukum Musa, pada waktu mereka Kubuang ke negeri-negeri asing."

14 Then 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!”

Tetapi aku menjawab, "Aduh TUHAN Yang Mahatinggi! Sejak kecil sampai sekarang, belum pernah aku menajiskan diriku dengan makanan bangkai binatang atau sisa mangsa binatang buas. Tak pernah aku makan makanan yang dianggap haram."

15 Then he said to me, “Behold, I have given you cow’s dung for man’s dung, and you shall prepare your bread on it.”

Maka Allah berkata, "Baiklah, sebagai ganti kotoran manusia, engkau boleh memakai kotoran sapi untuk membakar rotimu."

16 Moreover 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;

Kemudian Ia berkata lagi, "Hai manusia fana, Aku akan memusnahkan persediaan makanan di Yerusalem. Dengan cemas dan khawatir orang-orang akan membatasi makanan yang mereka makan dan air yang mereka minum.

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

Mereka akan berputus asa karena kehabisan roti dan air, dan akhirnya mereka mati karena dosa-dosa mereka."