8. I will tie you up with ropes so that you will not be able to turn from one side to the other until you have finished attacking ⌊Jerusalem⌋.
9. “Then take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and winter wheat. Put them in a container, and use them to make bread for yourself. Eat it during the 390 days that you are lying on your side.
10. The food that you eat should be weighed. Eat eight ounces of food every day at set times.
11. Measure out two-thirds of a quart of water, and drink it at set times.
12. Eat the bread as you would eat barley loaves. Bake the bread in front of people, using human excrement for fuel.”
13. Then the Lord said, “In the same way, the people of Israel will eat unclean bread among the nations where I scatter them.”
14. I answered, “Almighty Lord, I have never dishonored myself. From the time I was young until now, I have never eaten an animal that died by itself or was killed by other wild animals. No unclean meat has ever entered my mouth.”
15. He said to me, “I will let you use cow manure in place of human excrement. Bake your bread over it.”
16. He also said to me, “Son of man, I am going to cut off the bread supply in Jerusalem. People will anxiously eat rationed bread and fearfully drink rationed water.