New American Bible, Revised Edition

Ezekiel 4:5-12 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

5. I allot you three hundred and ninety days during which you must bear the guilt of the house of Israel, the same number of years they sinned.

6. When you have completed this, you shall lie down a second time, on your right side to bear the guilt of the house of Judah forty days; I allot you one day for each year.

7. Turning your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, with bared arm you shall prophesy against it.

8. See, I bind you with ropes so that you cannot turn from one side to the other until you have completed the days of your siege.

9. Then take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and spelt; put them into a single pot and make them into bread. Eat it for as many days as you lie upon your side, three hundred and ninety days.

10. The food you eat shall be twenty shekels a day by weight; each day you shall eat it.

11. And the water you drink shall be the sixth of a hin by measure; each day you shall drink it.

12. And the barley cake you eat you must bake on human excrement in the sight of all.