Ezekiel 4:14-16

New Catholic Bible

¹⁴ “Lord God,” I protested, “from my youth until this very day I have never defiled myself. I have never eaten an animal that died a natural death or was torn to pieces by wild beasts. No unclean meat has ever entered my mouth.” ¹⁵ He replied: Very well. I will permit you to use cow dung instead of human dung to prepare your bread.^[a]

¹⁶ Then he said to me: Son of man, I intend to reduce greatly the supply of food in Jerusalem. The people will ration anxiously the bread they eat and sip carefully the measure of water they are allotted each day.