4:1 Thou also, Ben Adam, take a clay tablet, and lay it before thee, and portray upon it the city, [even] Yerushalayim:
4:2 And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set [battering] rams against it round about.
4:3 Moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it [for] a wall of iron between thee and the city: and set thy face against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it.
This [shall be] a sign to the Beit Yisrael.
4:4 Lie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the Beit Yisrael upon it: [according] to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their iniquity.
4:5 For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the Beit Yisrael.
4:6 And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the Beit Yehudah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year.
4:7 Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Yerushalayim, and thine arm [shall be] uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against it.
4:8 And, Hinnei, I will lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn thee from one side to another, till thou hast ended the days of thy siege.
4:9 Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee lechem thereof, [according] to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.
4:10 And thy okhel (food) which thou shalt eat [shall be] by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it.
4:11 Thou shalt drink also mayim by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.
4:12 And thou shalt eat it [as] barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight.
4:13 And YHWH (יהוה) said:
Even thus shall the benai Yisrael eat their defiled lechem among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them.
4:14 Then said I, Ah Adonay (אדני) YHWH (יהוה)! Hinnei, my soul hath not been tuma'ah (defiled): for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.
4:15 Then He said unto me:
Raah (see), I have given thee cow's dung for man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy lechem therewith.
4:16 Moreover He said unto me:
Ben Adam, Hinnei, I will break the staff of lechem in Yerushalayim: and they shall eat lechem by weight, and with care; and they shall drink mayim by measure, and with astonishment:
4:17 That they may want lechem and mayim, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.
The Recipes of six mixed grain:
Chittin - Wheat
Se'orim - Barley
Fol - Beans
Adosim - Lentils (Dal)
Dochan - Millet
Kussemim - Spelt
4:1-3 - Writing on a clay tablet - Yechezkiel use a clay to sketch out or build a model showing how Bavel would lay seige to Yerushalayim
4:4-8 - Lying on his side - He lay on his side to show that the length of Bavel's seige would correspond to the number of years Yisrael had sinned against Hashem
4:9-17 Baking Lechem over dung - Yechezkiel baked his lechem with fire fueled by dung, which was defile according Torah. He was illustrating that their impending golus would force them to eat non-kosher polluted food would mirror the uncleaness of their sin.
5:1-4 - Shaving his head - He shaved his head as a sign of mourning. The burning of a third of his har symbolised the fires that would destroy Yerushalayim; the chopped hair stood for the people who would die by the sword; and the hair scattered in the wind represented those Yehudim who would be taken away into golus.
12:1-16 Packing his bags - Yechezkiel leave Yerushalayim to prepare the watching crowds for the coming golus of the people of Yisrael.
12:17-28 Quivering - Trembling and shuddering while he ate, He acted out the awful fear the Yehudim would face when their enemies swept through the land.
20:45-49 - Facing south and proclaiming to the foresst - He proclaimed toward the south in order to show that Hashem would send shophatim on Yehudah, the southern Kingdom
21:1-32 - Preaching about a sword while sighing - Facing Yerushalayim, he used, instead of fire, the picture of a sword to prophesy destruction. He deep sighs were intended to show the heavy hearts the people would have.
24:15-27 - Refusing to mourn for his wife - Hashem took Yechezkiel's wife as a sign of the overwhelming sadness the nation would feel when Yerushalayim and the temple were destroyed.
37:15-28 Holding two sticks together - Pictured the restoration of Yisrael by writing on one stick the name of Yehudah and on the other the name of Yosef and then holding them together.