4. You will bring out your baggage by day in their sight, as baggage for exile. You will go out at evening in their sight, like those going into exile.
5. As they watch, dig through the wall and go out through it.
6. Bear the burden on your shoulder in their sight. Carry it out in the darkness; cover your face so that you cannot see the ground. For I have made you a sign for the house of Israel.”
7. I did just as I was commanded: I brought out my baggage by day, as baggage for exile. In the evening, I dug through the wall with my hand. I carried it out in the darkness and bore it on my shoulder, as they watched.
8. In the morning, the word of Adonai came to me saying,
9. “Son of man, has the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said to you, ‘What are you doing?’
10. Say to them, ‘Thus says Adonai Elohim: this burden concerns the prince in Jerusalem and all the house of Israel there.’
11. Say, ‘I am a sign for you. Just as I have done, so it will be done to them—they will go into exile, into captivity.
12. The prince who is among them will bear a burden on his shoulder, and go out in the darkness. They will dig through the wall to get out; he will cover his face so that he cannot see the land with his eyes.
13. I will spread out My net upon him, so he will be caught in My net. I will bring him to Babylon, to the land of the Chaldeans. He will not see it, though he will die there.
14. I will disperse toward every wind all that surround him to help him and all his troops. I will draw out the sword after them.