Ezequiel 4
1 “Tú, hijo de hombre, toma un ladrillo, póntelo delante y dibuja en él una ciudad, Jerusalén.
“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 Haz contra ella un cerco, edifica contra ella torres, y levanta contra ella terraplenes, asienta contra ella campamentos, y coloca arietes alrededor de ella.
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 Toma luego una sartén de hierro, y ponla como muralla de hierro entre ti y la ciudad; y dirige tu rostro contra ella, así la sitiarás, y ella quedará sitiada. Señal es esta para la casa de Israel.
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 Te acostarás sobre tu lado izquierdo y pondrás sobre él la culpa de la casa de Israel; durante todo el tiempo que te acostares sobre él, llevarás la culpa de ellos.
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 Te he convertido los años de su culpa en días, de manera que durante trescientos noventa días llevarás la culpa de la casa de Israel.
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 Concluidos estos, te acostarás de nuevo, esta vez sobre tu lado derecho, y llevarás la culpa de la casa de Judá cuarenta días; pues te doy un día por cada año.
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 Y dirigirás tu rostro y tu brazo desnudo hacia la Jerusalén asediada y profetizarás contra ella.
And you shall turn your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and your arm shall be extended. And you shall prophesy against it.
8 Y he aquí que Yo te ataré con cuerdas para que no te vuelvas de un lado al otro, hasta que hayas cumplido los días de tu asedio.
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 Toma trigo, cebada, habas lentejas, mijo y espelta y ponlo todo en una vasija; y haz de ello tu comida según el número de los días que quedes acostado sobre tu lado. Lo comerás en los trescientos noventa días.
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 Comerás tu alimento por peso: será de veinte siclos por día; de tiempo en tiempo lo comerás.
But your food, which you will eat, shall be in weight twenty staters a day. You shall eat it from time to time.
11 Beberás también el agua a medida, la sexta parte de un hin; de tiempo en tiempo la beberás.
And you shall drink water by measure, one sixth part of a hin. You shall drink it from time to time.
12 Comerás esta (comida) en forma de galletas de cebada, cocidas con excrementos humanos, a vista de los (hombres).
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 Y dijo Yahvé: “Así comerán los hijos de Israel su pan inmundo entre las naciones adonde Yo los arrojaré.”
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 Entonces dije yo: “¡Ay Señor, Yahvé! mira que mi alma nunca ha sido contaminada, y desde mi infancia hasta ahora no he comido cosa mortecina ni despedazada (por fieras), y jamás ha entrado en mi boca carne inmunda.”
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 Él me respondió: “He aquí que en lugar de excrementos humanos te permito estiércol de bueyes, sobre el cuál podrás cocer tu comida.”
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 Y me dijo: “Hijo de hombre, he aquí que voy a quebrar el báculo de pan en Jerusalén, y comerán el pan por peso y en angustia, y beberán el agua a medida y con espanto;
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 a fin de que, faltándoles el pan y el agua, perezcan los unos con los otros y se consuman en su iniquidad.
So then, when bread and water fail, each one may fall against his brother. And they shall waste away in their iniquities.”
