Ezequiel 4

1 Y tú, hijo de hombre, toma una tablilla, póntela delante y diseña la ciudad de Jerusalén en ella.

“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 Pon sitio, edifica torres de asedio, levanta terraplenes y pon tropas contra ella y armas militares para romper muros 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 también una sartén de hierro y póngala como una pared de hierro entre ti y la ciudad. Dirige contra ella tu cara. Quedará sitiada. Tú la asediarás. Es una señal 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 Recuéstate sobre tu lado izquierdo y pon sobre él la iniquidad de la Casa de Israel. Los días que estés recostado sobre él cargarás la iniquidad 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 Yo te señalo en días los años de la iniquidad de ellos: 390 días, para que lleves la iniquidad 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 Cuando cumplas éstos, te recostarás hacia el lado derecho y llevarás la iniquidad de la Casa de Judá 40 días: 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 Luego dirigirás tu cara hacia el asedio de Jerusalén, y con tu brazo descubierto 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 Ahora mira, pondré cuerdas sobre ti, para que no te voltees de un lado al otro, hasta que cumplas los días de tu sitio.

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 Y tú toma para ti trigo, cebada, habas, lentejas, millo y centeno. Échalos en una vasija y con ellos harás pan el número de días que estés recostado a un lado. 390 días comerás de él.

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: 1,1 kilogramos por día. Lo comerás de tiempo en tiempo.

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 el agua por medida: la sexta parte de una medida de 3,6 litros. La beberás de tiempo en tiempo.

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

12 Comerás también pan de cebada que cocerás delante de ellos sobre excremento humano.

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 Entonces Yavé dijo: Así los hijos de Israel comerán su pan impuro entre las naciones a donde Yo los disperse.

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 Y dije: ¡Ay, ʼAdonay Yavé! En verdad, nunca fui contaminado. Desde mi juventud hasta ahora, no comí cosa mortecina ni despedazada por las fieras, ni entró en mi boca carne repugnante.

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 Entonces Él me respondió: Mira, te permito usar estiércol de ganado vacuno en vez de excremento humano para que prepares tu pan.

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, mira, quiebro el sustento de pan en Jerusalén. Comerán el pan por peso y con angustia. Beberán el agua por medida y con aflicción,

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 para que les falte el pan y el agua, queden desmayados unos y otros, y se debiliten progresivamente a causa de su iniquidad.

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