1«Tu, figlio d’uomo, prendi un mattone, mettitelo davanti e disegnaci sopra una città, Gerusalemme;2cingila d’assedio, costruisci contro di lei una torre, fa’ contro di lei dei bastioni, circondala di vari accampamenti e disponi contro di lei, tutto intorno, degli arieti.3Prendi poi una piastra di ferro e piazzala come un muro di ferro fra te e la città. Volta la tua faccia contro di essa; sia assediata, e tu cingila d’assedio. Questo sarà un segno per la casa d’Israele.4Poi sdràiati sul tuo lato sinistro e metti su questo lato l’iniquità della casa d’Israele; per il numero di giorni che starai sdraiato su quel lato, tu porterai la loro iniquità.5Io ti conterò gli anni della loro iniquità in un numero pari a quello di quei giorni: trecentonovanta giorni. Tu porterai così l’iniquità della casa d’Israele.6Quando avrai compiuto quei giorni, ti sdraierai di nuovo sul tuo lato destro e porterai l’iniquità della casa di Giuda per quaranta giorni: t’impongo un giorno per ogni anno.7Tu volgerai la tua faccia e il tuo braccio nudo verso l’assedio di Gerusalemme, e profetizzerai contro di essa.8Ecco, io ti metterò addosso delle corde, e tu non potrai voltarti da un lato sull’altro finché tu non abbia compiuto i giorni del tuo assedio.9Prendi anche frumento, orzo, fave, lenticchie, miglio e spelta; mettili in un vaso e fattene del pane sufficiente per tutto il tempo che starai sdraiato sul tuo lato; ne mangerai per trecentonovanta giorni.10Il cibo che mangerai sarà del peso di venti sicli per giorno; lo mangerai una volta al giorno.11Berrai pure dell’acqua a misura, la sesta parte di un hin; la berrai una volta al giorno.12Mangerai delle focacce d’orzo, che metterai a cuocere sopra escrementi d’uomo, in loro presenza».13Il Signore disse: «Così i figli d’Israele mangeranno il loro pane contaminato fra le nazioni dove io li caccerò».14Allora io dissi: «Ahimè, Signore, Dio, ecco, io non mi sono mai contaminato; dalla mia infanzia a ora, non ho mai mangiato carne di bestia morta da sé o sbranata, e non mi è mai entrata in bocca nessuna carne impura».15Egli mi disse: «Guarda, io ti do dello sterco bovino, invece di escrementi d’uomo; sopra quello cuocerai il tuo pane!»16Poi mi disse: «Figlio d’uomo, io farò mancare del tutto il sostegno del pane a Gerusalemme; essi mangeranno con angoscia pane razionato e berranno acqua a misura, nel terrore,17perché mancheranno di pane e di acqua. Saranno tutti avviliti e si consumeranno a causa della loro iniquità.
Verschiedene Zeichenhandlungen zur Darstellung der Belagerung und Schuld Jerusalems
1Und du, Menschensohn, nimm dir einen Ziegelstein, und lege ihn vor dich hin, und zeichne darauf eine Stadt, ⟨nämlich⟩ Jerusalem! (Is 20,3; Ez 5,1; Ez 12,3)2Und verhänge eine Belagerung gegen sie, und baue Belagerungstürme gegen sie, und schütte gegen sie einen Belagerungswall auf, und stelle Heerlager gegen sie, und errichte Sturmböcke gegen sie ringsherum! (Ger 6,6; Ez 21,27; Lu 19,43)3Und du, nimm dir eine eiserne Pfanne, und stelle sie als eine eiserne Wand zwischen dich und die Stadt! Und richte dein Gesicht gegen sie, dass sie in Belagerung ist und du sie belagerst! Das ist ein Wahrzeichen für das Haus Israel. (Is 22,7; Ez 12,6; Ez 24,24)4Und du, lege dich auf deine linke Seite, und lege die Schuld des Hauses Israel auf dich[1]: Nach der Anzahl der Tage, die du auf ihr liegst, ⟨so lange⟩ sollst du ihre Schuld tragen!5Und ich habe dir die Jahre ihrer Schuld zu einer Anzahl von Tagen gemacht: 390 Tage. ⟨So lange⟩ sollst du die Schuld des Hauses Israel tragen.6Und hast du diese ⟨Zeit⟩ vollendet, so lege dich zum zweiten Mal hin, ⟨nun⟩ auf deine rechte Seite, und trage die Schuld des Hauses Juda! Vierzig Tage lang, je einen Tag für ein Jahr, habe ich ⟨sie⟩ dir auferlegt[2]. – (Nu 14,34; Da 9,24)7Und gegen die Belagerung Jerusalems richte dein Gesicht und deinen entblößten Arm, und du sollst gegen es weissagen!8Und siehe, ich lege dir Stricke an, dass du dich nicht von einer Seite auf die andere umdrehen kannst, bis du die Tage deiner Belagerung vollendet hast. (Ez 3,25; Ez 5,2)9Und du, nimm dir Weizen und Gerste und Bohnen und Linsen und Hirse und Korn[3], und tu sie in ein einziges Gefäß! Und mache dir Brot daraus nach der Zahl der Tage, die du auf deiner Seite liegst: 390 Tage sollst du davon essen!10Und deine Nahrung, die du essen wirst, soll nach ⟨genau abgemessenem⟩ Gewicht sein: zwanzig Schekel für den Tag; von Zeit zu Zeit[4] sollst du davon essen!11Und Wasser sollst du nach ⟨genau festgesetztem⟩ Maß trinken: ein sechstel Hin; von Zeit zu Zeit[5] sollst du trinken!12Und wie Gerstenbrotfladen sollst du sie[6] essen, und du sollst sie in Mistfladen aus Menschenkot vor ihren Augen backen!13Und der HERR sprach: So werden die Söhne Israel ihr Brot unrein essen unter den Nationen, wohin ich sie vertreiben werde. (Da 1,8; Os 9,3)14Da sprach ich: Ach, Herr, HERR! Siehe, meine Seele ist nie unrein gemacht worden, und weder Aas noch Zerrissenes habe ich gegessen von meiner Jugend an bis jetzt, und nichts Unreines[7] ist in meinen Mund gekommen. (Eso 22,30; Le 11,39; De 14,3; At 10,14)15Und er sprach zu mir: Siehe, ich habe dir Rindermist statt Menschenkot gestattet; und darauf magst du dein Brot bereiten.16Und er sprach zu mir: Menschensohn, siehe, ich zerbreche den Stab[8] des Brotes in Jerusalem – und sie werden Brot essen nach ⟨genau abgemessenem⟩ Gewicht und in Angst und Wasser trinken nach ⟨genau abgemessenem⟩ Maß und in Entsetzen –, (Le 26,26; 2Re 25,3; Lam 4,9; Ez 5,16; Ez 12,18; Ez 14,13)17damit sie an Brot und Wasser Mangel haben und miteinander[9] verschmachten und in ihrer Schuld[10] dahinschwinden. (Le 26,39; 2Re 6,25; 2Cr 34,24; Ger 19,1; Ez 24,23)
1“And you, son of man, take a brick and lay it before you, and engrave on it a city, even Jerusalem. (Ger 13,1; Ez 2,1; Ez 4,3)2And put siegeworks against it, and build a siege wall against it, and cast up a mound against it. Set camps also against it, and plant battering rams against it all around. (2Re 25,1; Ez 17,17; Ez 21,22; Ez 26,8; Ez 26,9; Lu 19,43)3And you, take an iron griddle, and place it as an iron wall between you and the city; and set your face toward it, and let it be in a state of siege, and press the siege against it. This is a sign for the house of Israel. (Is 8,18; Is 20,3; Is 29,3; Ez 12,6; Ez 12,11; Ez 21,2; Ez 24,24; Ez 24,27)4“Then lie on your left side, and place the punishment[1] of the house of Israel upon it. For the number of the days that you lie on it, you shall bear their punishment. (Le 16,22; Is 53,11; Ez 44,10; Ez 44,12)5For I assign to you a number of days, 390 days, equal to the number of the years of their punishment. So long shall you bear the punishment of the house of Israel. (Nu 14,34; Ez 4,4; Ez 4,9; Ez 23,4; Ez 23,9)6And when you have completed these, you shall lie down a second time, but on your right side, and bear the punishment of the house of Judah. Forty days I assign you, a day for each year. (Le 16,22; Nu 14,34; Is 53,11; Ez 23,11; Ez 44,10; Ez 44,12)7And you shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, with your arm bared, and you shall prophesy against the city. (Is 52,10; Ez 21,2)8And behold, I will place cords upon you, so that you cannot turn from one side to the other, till you have completed the days of your siege. (2Re 25,1; Ger 39,1; Ger 52,4; Ez 3,25; Ez 4,9; Ez 5,2)9“And you, take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and emmer,[2] and put them into a single vessel and make your bread from them. During the number of days that you lie on your side, 390 days, you shall eat it. (1Re 22,27; Ez 4,5; Ez 4,8)10And your food that you eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels[3] a day; from day to day[4] you shall eat it. (Ger 37,21; Ez 12,19; Ez 45,12)11And water you shall drink by measure, the sixth part of a hin;[5] from day to day you shall drink. (Ez 4,10)12And you shall eat it as a barley cake, baking it in their sight on human dung.” (Ez 12,3)13And the Lord said, “Thus shall the people of Israel eat their bread unclean, among the nations where I will drive them.” (Da 1,8; Os 9,3)14Then I said, “Ah, Lord God! Behold, I have never defiled myself.[6] From my youth up till now I have never eaten what died of itself or was torn by beasts, nor has tainted meat come into my mouth.” (Le 7,18; Le 7,24; Is 65,4; Ez 9,8; Ez 11,13; Ez 20,49; Ez 44,31; At 10,14)15Then he said to me, “See, I assign to you cow’s dung instead of human dung, on which you may prepare your bread.”16Moreover, he said to me, “Son of man, behold, I will break the supply[7] of bread in Jerusalem. They shall eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and they shall drink water by measure and in dismay. (Le 26,26; Ez 2,1; Ez 4,10; Ez 5,16; Ez 14,13)17I will do this that they may lack bread and water, and look at one another in dismay, and rot away because of their punishment. (Le 26,39; Ez 3,15; Ez 24,23; Ez 33,10)
Ezechiele 4
King James Version
1Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and pourtray upon it the city, even Jerusalem:2And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it round about.3Moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city: and set thy face against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.4Lie thou also 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.5For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.6And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year.7Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and thine arm shall be uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against it.8And, behold, I will lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn thee from one side to another, till thou hast ended the days of thy siege.9Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, 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, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.10And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it.11Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.12And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight.13And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them.14Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! 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 in pieces; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.15Then he said unto me, Lo, I have given thee cow' dung for man' dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith.16Moreover 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 care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment:17That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.