以西結書 4

1 「人子啊，你要拿一塊磚，擺在你面前，將一座耶路撒冷城畫在其上，

“And as for you, son of man, take up for yourself a tablet, and you shall set it before you. And you shall draw upon it the city of Jerusalem.

2 又圍困這城，造臺築壘，安營攻擊，在四圍安設撞錘攻城，

And you shall set up a blockade against it, and you shall build fortifications, and you shall put together a rampart, and you shall encamp opposite it, and you shall place battering rams around it.

3 又要拿個鐵鏊，放在你和城的中間，作為鐵牆。你要對面攻擊這城，使城被困；這樣，好作以色列家的預兆。

And you shall take up for yourself an iron frying pan, and place it as an iron wall between you and the city. And harden your face against it, and it shall be under a siege, and you shall surround it. This is a sign to the house of Israel.

4 「你要向左側臥，承當以色列家的罪孽；要按你向左側臥的日數，擔當他們的罪孽。

And you shall sleep on your left side. And you shall place the iniquities of the house of Israel on it by the number of days that you will sleep on it. And you shall take upon yourself their iniquity.

5 因為我已將他們作孽的年數定為你向左側臥的日數，就是三百九十日，你要這樣擔當以色列家的罪孽。

For I have given to you the years of their iniquity, by the number of the days: three hundred and ninety days. And you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.

6 再者，你滿了這些日子，還要向右側臥，擔當猶大家的罪孽。我給你定規側臥四十日，一日頂一年。

And when you will have completed this, you shall sleep a second time, on your right side, and you shall assume the iniquity of the house of Judah for forty days: one day for each year; one day, I say, for each year, have I given to you.

7 你要露出膀臂，面向被困的耶路撒冷，說預言攻擊這城。

And you shall turn your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and your arm shall be extended. And you shall prophesy against it.

8 我用繩索捆綁你，使你不能輾轉，直等你滿了困城的日子。

Behold, I have surrounded you with chains. And you shall not turn yourself from one side to the other side, until you have completed the days of your siege.

9 「你要取小麥、大麥、豆子、紅豆、小米、粗麥，裝在一個器皿中，用以為自己做餅；要按你側臥的三百九十日吃這餅。

And you shall take for yourself wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and vetch. And you shall set them in one vessel, and you shall make for yourself bread by the number of days that you will sleep upon your side: three hundred and ninety days shall you shall eat from it.

10 你所吃的要按分兩吃，每日二十舍客勒，按時而吃。

But your food, which you will eat, shall be in weight twenty staters a day. You shall eat it from time to time.

11 你喝水也要按制子，每日喝一欣六分之一，按時而喝。

And you shall drink water by measure, one sixth part of a hin. You shall drink it from time to time.

12 你吃這餅像吃大麥餅一樣，要用人糞在眾人眼前燒烤。」

And you shall eat it like barley bread baked under ashes. And you shall cover it, in their sight, with the dung that goes out of a man.”

13 耶和華說：「以色列人在我所趕他們到的各國中，也必這樣吃不潔淨的食物。」

And the Lord said: “So shall the sons of Israel eat their bread, polluted among the Gentiles, to whom I will cast them out.”

14 我說：「哎！主耶和華啊，我素來未曾被玷污，從幼年到如今沒有吃過自死的，或被野獸撕裂的，那可憎的肉也未曾入我的口。」

And I said: “Alas, alas, alas, O Lord God! Behold, my soul has not been polluted, and from my infancy even until now, I have not eaten anything that has died of itself, nor that which has been torn up by beasts, and no unclean flesh at all has entered into my mouth.”

15 於是他對我說：「看哪，我給你牛糞代替人糞，你要將你的餅烤在其上。」

And he said to me: “Behold, I have given to you cow manure in place of human dung, and you shall make your bread with it.”

16 他又對我說：「人子啊，我必在耶路撒冷折斷他們的杖，就是斷絕他們的糧。他們吃餅要按分兩，憂慮而吃；喝水也要按制子，驚惶而喝；

And he said to me: “Son of man, behold: I will crush the staff of bread in Jerusalem. And they will eat bread by weight and with anxiety. And they will drink water by measure and with anguish.

17 使他們缺糧缺水，彼此驚惶，因自己的罪孽消滅。」

So then, when bread and water fail, each one may fall against his brother. And they shall waste away in their iniquities.”