1And thou, son of man, take to thee a tilestone; and thou shalt set it before thee, and thou shalt describe therein the city of Jerusalem.

2And thou shalt ordain besieging against that Jerusalem; and thou shalt build strongholds, and thou shalt bear together [an heap of] earth, and thou shalt give hosts of battle against it, and thou shalt set engines by compass.

3And take thou to thee an iron frying pan; and thou shalt set it into an iron wall betwixt thee and betwixt the city; and thou shalt set steadfastly thy face to it, and it shall be into besieging, and thou shalt encompass it; it is a sign to the house of Israel.

4And thou shalt sleep on thy left side, and thou shalt put the wicked-nesses of the house of Israel on that side; in the number of days in which thou shalt sleep on that side, and thou shalt take the wickedness of them.

5Forsooth I gave to thee the years of the wickedness of them by number of days, three hundred and ninety days; and thou shalt bear the wicked-ness of the house of Israel.

6And when thou hast [ful] filled these things, thou shalt sleep the second time on thy right side. And thou shalt take the wickedness of the house of Judah by forty days; I gave to thee a day for a year, a day soothly for a year.

7And thou shalt turn thy face to the besieging of Jerusalem; and thine arm shall be stretched forth, and thou shalt prophesy against it.

8Lo! I have encompassed thee with bonds, and thou shalt not turn thee from this side into the other side, till thou [ful] fill the days of thy besieging.

9And take thou to thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and fitches; and thou shalt put those [or them] into one vessel. And thou shalt make to thee loaves for the number of days, by which thou shalt sleep on thy side; by three hundred and ninety days thou shalt eat it.

10Forsooth thy meat, which thou shalt eat, shall be in weight twenty staters in a day; from time till to time thou shalt eat it.

11And thou shalt drink water in measure, the sixth part of hin; from time till to time thou shalt drink it.

12And thou shalt eat it as barley bread baked under the ashes; and with the dung that goeth out of a man thou shalt cover it, before the eyes of them.

13The Lord saith these things, So the sons of Israel shall eat their bread defouled among heathen men, to whom I shall cast them out.

14And I said, A! A! A! Lord God, lo! my soul is not defouled, and from my young childhood till to now I ate not a thing dead by itself, and rent of beasts; and all unclean flesh entered not into my mouth.

15And he said to me, Lo! I have given to thee the dung of oxes [or oxen] for men’s turds; and thou shalt make ready thy bread with it instead.

16And he said to me, Son of man, lo! I shall all-break the staff of bread in Jerusalem, and they shall eat their bread in weight and in busyness, and they shall drink water in measure and in anguish;

17that when bread and water fail, each man fall down to his brother, and they fail in their wickednesses.