Ezekiel 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.'

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight.

In Context

11Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of a hin; from time to time shalt thou drink.

13And the LORD said: 'Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their bread unclean, among the nations whither I will drive them.'

Read all of Ezekiel 4

Cross References

Genesis 18:6And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said: 'Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes.'

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 4:10-17

The Representation of a Famine. ( b. c. 595.) 9 Take 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. 10 And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it. 11 Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time… Read the whole commentary →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study Ezekiel 4:12