Ezekiel 4:12-15

The Voice

¹² Eat the bread in the same manner you would eat a barley cake. Let the people see you bake it, and use human excrement instead of animal dung as fuel. ¹³ This is exactly what will happen to the people of Israel. They will be forced to eat their bread defiled and impure when I drive them to other nations.

Ezekiel: ¹⁴ Never, Eternal Lord! I have never defiled myself in such a way. Since childhood, I have never eaten anything that is impure—nothing diseased or ripped apart by wild animals.^[a] Not a morsel of impure meat has ever been in my mouth.

Eternal One: ¹⁵ All right then, I’ll let you bake your bread over cow dung instead of human excrement.