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14 And I said, “Ah, Lord Yahweh! Look! I have not been defiling myself, and a dead body and mangled carcass I have not eaten from my childhood until now, and unclean meat[a] has not come into my mouth!” 15 And he said to me, “See I will give you cattle manure[b] in the place of the feces of a human, and you may prepare your food on it.” 16 And he said to me, “Son of man,[c] look, I am going to break the supply[d] of bread in Jerusalem, and they will eat bread by weight, anxiously,[e] and rationed water,[f] and they will drink with horror,

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 4:14 Literally “flesh of unclean meat”
  2. Ezekiel 4:15 Literally “the manure of cattle”
  3. Ezekiel 4:16 Or “mortal,” or “son of humankind”
  4. Ezekiel 4:16 Literally “staff”
  5. Ezekiel 4:16 Literally “and with worry”
  6. Ezekiel 4:16 Literally “and water by amount”