Ezekiel 4:15

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So he said to me,“All right then, I will substitute cow’s manure instead of human excrement. You will cook your food over it.”

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  • Ezek 4:12-14
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    86%

    12And you must eat the food like you would a barley cake. You must bake it in front of them over a fire made with dried human excrement.”

    13And the LORD said,“This is how the people of Israel will eat their unclean food among the nations where I will banish them.”

    14And I said,“Ah, Sovereign LORD, I have never been ceremonially defiled before. I have never eaten a carcass or an animal torn by wild beasts; from my youth up, unclean meat has never entered my mouth.”

  • Ezek 4:8-10
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    8Look here, I will tie you up with ropes, so you cannot turn from one side to the other until you complete the days of your siege.

    9“As for you, take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt, put them in a single container, and make food from them for yourself. For the same number of days that you lie on your side– 390 days– you will eat it.

    10The food you eat will be eight ounces a day by weight; you must eat it at fixed times.

  • Ezek 4:16-17
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    16Then he said to me,“Son of man, I am about to remove the bread supply in Jerusalem. They will eat their bread ration anxiously, and they will drink their water ration in terror

    17because they will lack bread and water. Each one will be terrified, and they will rot for their iniquity.

  • 19As for my food that I gave you– the fine flour, olive oil, and honey I fed you– you placed it before them as a soothing aroma. That is exactly what happened, declares the Sovereign LORD.

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    18Is it not enough for you to feed on the good pasture, that you must trample the rest of your pastures with your feet? When you drink clean water, must you muddy the rest of the water by trampling it with your feet?

    19As for my sheep, they must eat what you trampled with your feet, and drink what you have muddied with your feet!

    20“‘Therefore, this is what the Sovereign LORD says to them: Look, I myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.

  • Ezek 3:1-4
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    1He said to me,“Son of man, eat what you see in front of you– eat this scroll– and then go and speak to the house of Israel.”

    2So I opened my mouth and he fed me the scroll.

    3He said to me,“Son of man, feed your stomach and fill your belly with this scroll I am giving to you.” So I ate it, and it was sweet like honey in my mouth.

    4He said to me,“Son of man, go to the house of Israel and speak my words to them.

  • 3I am about to discipline your children and will spread offal on your faces, the very offal produced at your festivals, and you will be carried away along with it.

  • 72%

    17The LORD’s message came to me:

    18“Son of man, eat your bread with trembling, and drink your water with anxious shaking.

    19Then say to the people of the land,‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says about the inhabitants of Jerusalem and of the land of Israel: They will eat their bread with anxiety and drink their water in fright, for their land will be stripped bare of all it contains because of the violence of all who live in it.

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    12The LORD’s message came to me:

    13“Son of man, suppose a country sins against me by being unfaithful, and I stretch out my hand against it, cut off its bread supply, cause famine to come on it, and kill both people and animals.

  • 8As for you, son of man, listen to what I am saying to you: Do not rebel like that rebellious house! Open your mouth and eat what I am giving you.”

  • 15I will provide pasture for your livestock and you will eat your fill.”

  • 19You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and scraps of bread. You have put to death people who should not die and kept alive those who should not live by your lies to my people, who listen to lies!

  • 17The LORD’s message came to me:

  • 4The LORD my God says this:“Shepherd the flock set aside for slaughter.

  • 22Then you will do as I have done: You will not cover your lip or eat food brought by others.

  • 26When I break off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven; they will ration your bread by weight, and you will eat and not be satisfied.

  • 23The LORD’s message came to me:

  • 41He said,“Get some flour.” Then he threw it into the pot and said,“Now pour some out for the men so they may eat.” There was no longer anything harmful in the pot.

  • 15So then, listen to what I, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, say.‘I will make these people eat the bitter food of suffering and drink the poison water of judgment.

  • 9I then said,“I will not shepherd you. What is to die, let it die, and what is to be eradicated, let it be eradicated. As for those who survive, let them eat each other’s flesh!”

  • 6“But surely I gave you no food to eat in all your cities; you lacked food everywhere you live. Still you did not come back to me.” The LORD is speaking!

  • 11But the hide of the bull, all its flesh along with its head and its legs, its entrails, and its dung–

  • Isa 30:23-24
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    23He will water the seed you plant in the ground, and the ground will produce crops in abundance. At that time your cattle will graze in wide pastures.

    24The oxen and donkeys used in plowing will eat seasoned feed winnowed with a shovel and pitchfork.

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    16The LORD’s message came to me:

    17“Son of man, when the house of Israel was living on their own land, they defiled it by their behavior and their deeds. In my sight their behavior was like the uncleanness of a woman having her monthly period.

  • 1The Sins of Jerusalem The LORD’s message came to me:

  • 22Tell your daughters and neighbors,‘The LORD says,“The dead bodies of people will lie scattered everywhere like manure scattered on a field. They will lie scattered on the ground like grain that has been cut down but has not been gathered.”’”

  • 12But the chief adviser said,“My master did not send me to speak these words only to your master and to you. His message is also for the men who sit on the wall, for they will eat their own excrement and drink their own urine along with you!”

  • 21“The LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel says to the people of Judah:‘You might as well go ahead and add the meat of your burnt offerings to that of the other sacrifices and eat it, too!

  • 27But the chief adviser said to them,“My master did not send me to speak these words only to your master and to you. His message is also for the men who sit on the wall, for they will eat their own excrement and drink their own urine along with you.”

  • 4Therefore, prophesy against them! Prophesy, son of man!”

  • 19No one thinks to himself, nor do they comprehend or understand and say to themselves:‘I burned half of it in the fire– yes, I baked bread over the coals; I roasted meat and ate it. With the rest of it should I make a disgusting idol? Should I bow down to dry wood?’

  • 5Take the choice bone of the flock, heap up wood under it; boil rapidly, and boil its bones in it.

  • 19and you eat some of the food of the land, you must offer up a raised offering to the LORD.

  • 17Lambs will graze as if in their pastures, amid the ruins the rich sojourners will graze.

  • 2The LORD’s message came to me: