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take for yourself an iron plate, and set it as an
iron wall between you and the city. Set your
face against it, and it shall be besieged, and
3:17 a watchman. This role was spiritually you shall lay siege against it. This will be a
analogous to the role of watchmen on a city sign to the house of Israel.
wall, vigilant to spot the approach of an 4 “Lie also on your left side, and lay the iniq-
enemy and warn the residents to muster a uity of the house of Israel upon it. According to
defense.The prophet gave timely warnings of the number of the days that you lie on it, you
approaching judgment. The work of a watch- shall bear their iniquity. For I have laid on you
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man is vividly set forth in 2 Samuel 18:24–27 the years of their iniquity, according to the num-
and 2 Kings 9:17–20. ber of the days, three hundred and ninety days;
so you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Is-
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rael. And when you have completed them, lie
warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from
his wicked way, to save his life, that same again on your right side; then you shall bear the
wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his iniquity of the house of Judah forty days. I have
blood I will require at your hand. Yet, if you laid on you a day for each year.
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warn the wicked, and he does not turn from “Therefore you shall set your face toward
his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he the siege of Jerusalem; your arm shall be
shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered uncovered, and you shall prophesy against it.
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your soul. And surely I will restrain you so that you can-
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“Again, when a righteous man turns from
his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I ended the days of your siege.
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“Also take for yourself wheat, barley,
lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die; beans, lentils, millet, and spelt; put them into
because you did not give him warning, he one vessel, and make bread of them for your-
shall die in his sin, and his righteousness self. During the number of days that you lie on
which he has done shall not be remembered; your side, three hundred and ninety days, you
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but his blood I will require at your hand. Nev- shall eat it. And your food which you eat shall
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ertheless if you warn the righteous man that be by weight, twenty shekels a day; from time
the righteous should not sin, and he does not to time you shall eat it. You shall also drink
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sin, he shall surely live because he took warn- water by measure, one-sixth of a hin; from
ing; also you will have delivered your soul.” time to time you shall drink. And you shall
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Then the hand of the LORD was upon me eat it as barley cakes; and bake it using fuel of
there, and He said to me, “Arise, go out into human waste in their sight.”
the plain, and there I shall talk with you.” 13 Then the LORD said, “So shall the children
So I arose and went out into the plain, and of Israel eat their defiled bread among the
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behold, the glory of the LORD stood there, like Gentiles, where I will drive them.”
the glory which I saw by the River Chebar; and 14 So I said, “Ah, Lord GOD! Indeed I have
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I fell on my face. Then the Spirit entered me never defiled myself from my youth till now; I
and set me on my feet, and spoke with me and have never eaten what died of itself or was
said to me: “Go, shut yourself inside your torn by beasts, nor has abominable flesh ever
house. And you, O son of man, surely they come into my mouth.”
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will put ropes on you and bind you with them, 15 Then He said to me, “See, I am giving you
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so that you cannot go out among them. I will cow dung instead of human waste, and you
make your tongue cling to the roof of your shall prepare your bread over it.”
mouth, so that you shall be mute and not be 16 Moreover He said to me, “Son of man,
one to rebuke them, for they are a rebellious surely I will cut off the supply of bread in Jeru-
house. But when I speak with you, I will open salem; they shall eat bread by weight and with
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your mouth, and you shall say to them, ‘Thus anxiety, and shall drink water by measure and
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says the Lord GOD.’ He who hears, let him hear; with dread, that they may lack bread and water,
and he who refuses, let him refuse; for they are and be dismayed with one another, and waste
a rebellious house. away because of their iniquity.
“You also, son of man, take a clay tablet Psalm 119:161–168
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city, Jerusalem. Lay siege against it, build a V SHIN
siege wall against it, and heap up a mound 161 Princes persecute me without a cause,
against it; set camps against it also, and place But my heart stands in awe of Your
battering rams against it all around. Moreover word.
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