Ezekiel 4:9-17

“Now take some wheat, barley, beans, lentils, and other grains; store them all together and make bread for yourself. This will be your food for the 390 days you are lying on your side. Of these grains, make a small loaf of bread at a set time each day. And you are to ration the water you drink to two cups at a set time each day. Eat the food as you would a barley cake. While everyone can see you, build a fire with dried human excrement, then bake the bread on the coals.” And YAHWEH said, “In this same way the Israelites will have to eat defiled food among the nations where I will disperse them.” Then I replied, “Oh no! Lord YAHWEH, I have never defiled myself, from childhood until now. I have never eaten meat from any animal that died a natural death or was killed by wild animals. Nothing unclean has ever entered my mouth.” “Very well,” he said, “I will let you use dried cow manure instead of human excrement as fuel to bake your bread.” Then he added, “Son of man, I am going to cut off Jerusalem’s food supply. In their horrible distress, the food they eat and the water they drink will be rationed. They will watch as it all runs out and look at each other in total despair. And they will slowly die of starvation because of their guilt.”