Ezekiel 4:14-16

New English Translation

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^[a] 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^[b] in Jerusalem. They will eat their bread ration anxiously, and they will drink their water ration in terror