6. “When you have completed these days, then lie down a second time, but on your right side, and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah 40 days – I have assigned one day for each year.
7. You must turn your face toward the siege of Jerusalem with your arm bared and prophesy against it.
8. Look here, I will tie you up with ropes, so you cannot turn from one side to the other until you complete the days of your siege.
9. “As for you, take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt, put them in a single container, and make food from them for yourself. For the same number of days that you lie on your side – 390 days – you will eat it.
10. The food you eat will be eight ounces a day by weight; you must eat it at fixed times.
11. And you must drink water by measure, a pint and a half; you must drink it at fixed times.
12. And you must eat the food like you would a barley cake. You must bake it in front of them over a fire made with dried human excrement.”
13. And the Lord said, “This is how the people of Israel will eat their unclean food among the nations where I will banish them.”
14. And I said, “Ah, sovereign Lord, I have never been ceremonially defiled before. I have never eaten a carcass or an animal torn by wild beasts; from my youth up, unclean meat has never entered my mouth.”
15. So he said to me, “All right then, I will substitute cow’s manure instead of human excrement. You will cook your food over it.”
16. Then he said to me, “Son of man, I am about to remove the bread supply in Jerusalem. They will eat their bread ration anxiously, and they will drink their water ration in terror