10. You will eat eight ounces of food every day at set times.
11. You will drink about two-thirds of a quart of water every day at set times.
12. Eat your food as you would eat a barley cake, baking it over human dung where the people can see.”
13. Then the Lord said, “In the same way Israel will eat unclean food among the nations where I force them to go.”
14. But I said, “No, Lord God! I have never been made unclean. From the time I was young until now I’ve never eaten anything that died by itself or was torn by animals. Unclean meat has never entered my mouth.”
15. “Very well,” he said. “Then I will give you cow’s dung instead of human dung to use for your fire to bake your bread.”
16. He also said to me, “Human, I am going to cut off the supply of bread to Jerusalem. They will eat the bread that is measured out to them, and they will worry as they eat. They will drink water that is measured out to them, and they will be in shock as they drink it.
17. This is because bread and water will be hard to find. The people will be shocked at the sight of each other, and they will become weak because of their sin.