4:1 Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and portray upon it a city, even Jerusalem:
4:1 "Now you son of man, get yourself a brick, place it before you, and inscribe a city on it, Jerusalem.

4:2 and lay siege against it, and build forts against it, and cast up a mound against it; set camps also against it, and plant battering rams against it round about.
4:2 "Then lay siege against it, build a siege wall, raise up a ramp, pitch camps, and place battering rams against it all around.

4:3 And take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city: and set thy face toward it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.
4:3 "Then get yourself an iron plate and set it up as an iron wall between you and the city, and set your face toward it so that it is under siege, and besiege it. This is a sign to the house of Israel.

4:4 Moreover lie thou upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it; (according to) the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it, thou shalt bear their iniquity.
4:4 "As for you, lie down on your left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel on it; you shall bear their iniquity for the number of days that you lie on it.

4:5 For I have appointed the years of their iniquity to be unto thee a number of days, even three hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.
4:5 "For I have assigned you a number of days corresponding to the years of their iniquity, three hundred and ninety days; thus you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.

4:6 And again, when thou hast accomplished these, thou shalt lie on thy right side, and shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah: forty days, each day for a year, have I appointed it unto thee.
4:6 "When you have completed these, you shall lie down a second time, [but] on your right side, and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah; I have assigned it to you for forty days, a day for each year.

4:7 And thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, with thine arm uncovered; and thou shalt prophesy against it.
4:7 "Then you shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem with your arm bared, and prophesy against it.

4:8 And, behold, I lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn thee from one side to the other, till thou hast accomplished the days of thy siege.
4:8 "Now behold, I will put ropes on you so that you cannot turn from one side to the other, until you have completed the days of your siege.

4:9 Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof; (according to) the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, even three hundred and ninety days, shalt thou eat thereof.
4:9 "But as for you, take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet and spelt, put them in one vessel and make them into bread for yourself; you shall eat it according to the number of the days that you lie on your side, three hundred and ninety days.

4:10 And thy food which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it.
4:10 "And your food which you eat [shall be] twenty shekels a day by weight; you shall eat it from time to time.

4:11 And thou shalt drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.
4:11 "And the water you drink will be the sixth part of a hin by measure; you shall drink it from time to time.

4:12 And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it in their sight with dung that cometh out of man.
4:12 "And you shall eat it as a barley cake, having baked [it] in their sight over human dung."

4:13 And Jehovah said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their bread unclean, among the nations whither I will drive them.
4:13 Then the LORD said, "Thus shall the sons of Israel eat their bread unclean among the nations where I shall banish them."

4:14 Then said I, Ah Lord Jehovah! behold, my soul hath not been polluted; for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn of beasts; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.
4:14 But I said, "Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, I have never been defiled; for from my youth until now I have never eaten what died of itself or was torn by beasts, nor has any unclean meat ever entered my mouth."

4:15 Then he said unto me, See, I have given thee cow's dung for man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread thereon.
4:15 Then He said to me, "See, I shall give you cow's dung in place of human dung over which you will prepare your bread."

4:16 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with fearfulness; and they shall drink water by measure, and in dismay:
4:16 Moreover, He said to me, "Son of man, behold, I am going to break the staff of bread in Jerusalem, and they will eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and drink water by measure and in horror,

4:17 that they may want bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.
4:17 because bread and water will be scarce; and they will be appalled with one another and waste away in their iniquity.