Ezekiel 4
1 [Yahweh also said to me, ] “You human, take a large clay tablet/brick and put it in front of you. Then on the [engrave/draw] on it lines that represent Jerusalem.
and you(m. s.) son: child man to take: take to/for you brick and to give: put [obj] her to/for face: before your and to decree upon her city [obj] Jerusalem
2 [draw figures around it to represent enemy soldiers who will] surround the city. Make mounds around it and a dirt ramp up against the [around the city]. [figures around it that represent] (battering rams/heavy logs that will break though the walls).
and to give: put upon her siege and to build upon her siegework and to pour: build siege mound upon her mound and to give: put upon her camp and to set: put upon her ram around
3 Then take an iron pan, and place it [to be] like an iron wall between you [the drawing of] the city. Then turn your face toward the drawing. It will symbolize [enemy troops will] surround the city to attack it. That will be a warning to the Israeli people [MTY].
and you(m. s.) to take: take to/for you griddle iron and to give: put [obj] her wall iron between you and between [the] city and to establish: establish [obj] face your to(wards) her and to be in/on/with siege and to confine upon her sign: indicator he/she/it to/for house: household Israel
4 Then lie on your left side, and stay like that for 390 days. That [symbolize that the Israeli people will be punished for] their sins; you must lie like that one day for each year during which they will be punished.
and you(m. s.) to lie down: lay down upon side your [the] left and to set: put [obj] iniquity: punishment house: household Israel upon him number [the] day which to lie down: lay down upon him to lift: guilt [obj] iniquity: punishment their
and I to give: give to/for you [obj] year iniquity: punishment their to/for number day three hundred and ninety day and to lift: guilt iniquity: punishment house: household Israel
6 After that, lie down again. This time, lie on your right side for 40 days. That [symbolize that the Israeli people will be punished more] for their sins, one day for each [during which they will be punished].
and to end: finish [obj] these and to lie down: lay down upon side your ([the] right *Q(K)*) second and to lift: guilt [obj] iniquity: punishment house: household Judah forty day day to/for year day to/for year to give: give him to/for you
7 Turn your face [the drawing of] Jerusalem and bare your [like a soldier does who prepares to go into a battle] [MTY], and prophesy [what will happen to] the city.
and to(wards) siege Jerusalem to establish: establish face your and arm your to strip and to prophesy upon her
8 [You will not be able to move; it will be as though] I have tied you with ropes in order that you cannot turn from one side to the other until you have [symbolizing how many years the city] will be (besieged/surrounded by enemy soldiers).
and behold to give: put upon you cord and not to overturn from side your to(wards) side your till to end: finish you day siege your
9 [Before you do that, ] take some wheat and barley, beans, lentils, spelt and millet, and put them in a [storage] jar, and use that to bake [for yourself]. That is what you will eat during the 390 days while you lie on your [left] side.
and you(m. s.) to take: take to/for you wheat and barley and bean and lentil and millet and rye and to give: put [obj] them in/on/with article/utensil one and to make [obj] them to/for you to/for food: bread number [the] day which you(m. s.) to lie down: lay down upon side your three hundred and ninety day to eat him
10 You will eat (8 ounces/a small loaf) of bread each day.
and food your which to eat him in/on/with weight twenty shekel to/for day from time till time to eat him
11 [Also] measure out (1.5 pints/0.6 liter) of water to drink each day.
and water in/on/with capacity to drink sixth [the] hin from time till time to drink
12 Eat that bread like you would eat a loaf of barley bread. But use your own dried dung for fuel to bake the bread while people are watching.
and bun barley to eat her and he/she/it in/on/with dung excrement [the] man to bake them to/for eye: seeing their
13 That will symbolize that the Israeli people will be forced to eat food that is unacceptable to me when they are living in the nations to which I will force them to go.”
and to say LORD thus to eat son: descendant/people Israel [obj] food: bread their unclean in/on/with nation which to banish them there
14 Then I said, “No, Yahweh God![Do not force me to do that]! I have never caused myself to become unacceptable to you [by doing anything like that]. From the time when I was young, I have never eaten meat of any [animal] that was found dead or that had been killed by wild animals. And I have never eaten any meat that is unacceptable to you.”
and to say alas! Lord YHWH/God behold soul: myself my not to defile and carcass and torn animal not to eat from youth my and till now and not to come (in): come in/on/with lip my flesh refuse
15 Yahweh replied, “Okay, I will allow you to bake your bread using dried cow manure instead of human [for fuel].”
and to say to(wards) me to see: behold! to give: give to/for you [obj] (dung *Q(k)*) [the] cattle underneath: instead dung [the] man and to make [obj] food: bread your upon them
16 Then he said to me, “You human, I will cause the supply of food to Jerusalem to be cut off. [Then] the people will eat the small amounts of food and drink the small amounts of [that the government permits them to have], and they will be [very] distressed and anxious as they do that,
and to say to(wards) me son: child man look! I to break tribe: supply food: bread in/on/with Jerusalem and to eat food: bread in/on/with weight and in/on/with anxiety and water in/on/with capacity and in/on/with horror to drink
17 because water and food will be very scarce. They will see each other becoming extremely thin, and they will be appalled; [but this will happen] because they are being punished [for the sins that they have committed].”
because to lack food: bread and water and be desolate: appalled man: anyone and brother: compatriot his and to rot in/on/with iniquity: punishment their
