10. And the food you eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels or a full half pound a day, to be eaten at a fixed time each day.
11. You shall drink water by measure also, about one quart or the sixth part of a hin; you shall drink at a fixed time each day.
12. And you shall eat your food as barley cakes and you shall bake it with human dung as fuel in the sight of the people.
13. And the Lord said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the nations to whom I will drive them. [Hos. 9:3.]
14. Then said I, Ah, Lord God! Behold, I have never defiled myself. From my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dies of itself or is torn in pieces; neither did there ever come abominable flesh into my mouth. [Acts 10:14.]
15. Then He said to me, Behold, I will let you use cow's dung instead of human dung, and you shall prepare your food with it.
16. Moreover, He said to me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread [by which life is supported] in Jerusalem; and they shall eat bread rationed by weight and with fearfulness, and they shall drink water rationed by measure and with dismay (silent, speechless grief caused by the impending starvation), [Lev. 26:26; Ps. 105:16; Isa. 3:1.]
17. In order that they may lack bread and water and look at one another in dismay and waste away [in their punishment] for their iniquity.