Ezekiel 4:12-14

Good News Translation

¹² You are to build a fire out of dried human excrement, bake bread on the fire, and eat it where everyone can see you.”

¹³ The Lord said, “This represents the way the Israelites will have to eat food which the Law forbids,^[a] when I scatter them to foreign countries.”

¹⁴ But I replied, “No, Sovereign Lord! I have never defiled myself. From childhood on I have never eaten meat from any animal that died a natural death or was killed by wild animals. I have never eaten any food considered unclean.”