Ezekiel 4:14-17

The Voice

Ezekiel: ¹⁴ Never, Eternal Lord! I have never defiled myself in such a way. Since childhood, I have never eaten anything that is impure—nothing diseased or ripped apart by wild animals.^[a] Not a morsel of impure meat has ever been in my mouth.

Eternal One: ¹⁵ All right then, I’ll let you bake your bread over cow dung instead of human excrement.

^16-17 Son of man, I am going to cut off the food supply from Jerusalem. The people will slowly starve, living off minimal rations of food and water. As they eat their morsels of bread and drink their minimal ration of water, they will be constantly worrying about what they will eat and drink the next day. When bread and water become more and more scarce, everyone will look at each other in horror. They will slowly waste away beneath the weight of their sins.