New American Standard Bible

Ezekiel 4:12-16 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

12. You shall eat it as a barley cake, having baked it in their sight over human dung."

13. Then the Lord said, "Thus will the sons of Israel eat their bread unclean among the nations where I will banish them."

14. But I said, "Ah, Lord God! Behold, I have never been defiled; for from my youth until now I have never eaten what died of itself or was torn by beasts, nor has any unclean meat ever entered my mouth."

15. Then He said to me, "See, I will give you cow's dung in place of human dung over which you will prepare your bread."

16. Moreover, He said to me, "Son of man, behold, I am going to break the staff of bread in Jerusalem, and they will eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and drink water by measure and in horror,