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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 laysiege 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 round about.
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Moreover take thou unto thee an ironpan, 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.
4Lie thou also upon thy leftside, 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, threehundred and ninetydays: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.
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And when thou hast accomplishedthem, lieagain on thy rightside, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judahfortydays: I have appointed thee each day for a year.
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Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and thine arm shall be uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against it.
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And, behold, I will laybands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn thee from one side to another, till thou hast ended the days of thy siege.
9Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in onevessel, and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, threehundred and ninetydays shalt thou eat thereof.
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And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twentyshekels 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 an hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.
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And thou shalt eat it as barleycakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight.
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And the LORDsaid, Even thus shall the children of Israeleat their defiledbread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them.
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Then said I, AhLordGOD! behold, my soul hath not been polluted: for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither came there abominableflesh into my mouth.
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Then he said unto me, Lo, I have given thee cow's dung for man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith.
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Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eatbread by weight, and with care; and they shall drinkwater by measure, and with astonishment:
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That they may wantbread and water, and be astoniedone with another, and consume away for their iniquity.