The future siege of Jerusalem is described in a brick. 4. The time of captivity of Israel, and of Juda is signified by sleeping. 390. days on the left side, and forty on the right. 9. Famine is also signified by bread sprinkled with dung.The future siege of Ierusalem is described in a bricke. 4. The time of captiuitie of Israel, and of Iuda is signified by sleeping. 390. dayes on the left side, and fourtie on the right. 9. Famine is also signified by bread sprinkled with dung.✦
The second part. The destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple, with the captivity of the people for their sins.
And thou son of man take thee a brick, and thou shalt put it before thee: and thou shalt draw in it the city of Jerusalem.AND thou sonne of man take thee a bricke, & thou shalt put it before thee: and thou shalt draw in it the citie of Ierusalem.✦Et tu, fili hominis, sume tibi laterem, et pones eum coram te, et describes in eo civitatem Jerusalem.
2And thou shalt lay siege against it, and shalt build munitiones: ramparts thrown up about a besieged city, not weapons: siege-works, and cast up a bank, and pitch camps against it, and place engines round about.And thou shalt lay siege against it, and shalt build munitions, and cast vp a bancke, and pitch campes against it, and place engines round about.Et ordinabis adversus eam obsidionem, et ædificabis munitiones, et comportabis aggerem, et dabis contra eam castra, et pones arietes in gyro.
3And thou take thee an iron frying pan, and thou shalt set it as an iron wall between thee and the city: and thou shalt set thy face steadily toward it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt compass it: which is a sign to the house of Israel.And thou take thee an yron frying panne, and thou shalt set it as an yron wal betwen thee & the citie: and thou shalt set thy face stedely toward it, and it shal be besieged, and thou shalt compasse it: which is a signe to the house of Israel.✦Et tu sume tibi sartaginem ferream, et pones eam in murum ferreum inter te et inter civitatem : et obfirmabis faciem tuam ad eam, et erit in obsidionem, et circumdabis eam : signum est domui Israël.
4And thou shalt sleep upon thy left side, and shalt put the iniquities of the house of Israel upon it, according to the number of the days, that thou shalt sleep upon it, and thou shalt take their iniquity.And thou shalt sleepe vpon thy left side, and shalt put the iniquities of the house of Israel vpon it, according to the number of the daies, that thou shalt sleepe vpon it, and thou shalt take their iniquitie.✦Et tu dormies super latus tuum sinistrum, et pones iniquitates domus Israël super eo, numero dierum quibus dormies super illud : et assumes iniquitatem eorum.
5And I have given thee the years of their iniquity, according to the number of days, three hundred and ninety days: and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.And I haue geuen thee the yeares of their iniquitie, according to the number of daies three hundred and ninetie daies: and thou shalt beare the iniquitie of the house of Israel.✦Ego autem dedi tibi annos iniquitatis eorum, numero dierum trecentos et nonaginta dies : et portabis iniquitatem domus Israël.
6And when thou hast accomplished these things, thou shalt sleep upon thy right side the second time: and thou shalt take the iniquity of the house of Juda forty days. a day for a year, a day, I say, for a year I have given thee.And when thou hast accomplished these thinges, thou shalt sleepe vpon thy right side the second time: and thou shalt take the iniquitie of the house of Iuda fourtie daies. a day for a yeare, a day, I say, for a yeare I haue geuen thee.Et cum compleveris hæc, dormies super latus tuum dexterum secundo, et assumes iniquitatem domus Juda quadraginta diebus : diem pro anno, diem, inquam, pro anno, dedi tibi.
7And thou shalt turn thy face to the siege of Jerusalem, and thine arm shall be stretched out: and thou shalt prophesy against it.And thou shalt turne thy face to the siege of Ierusalem, and thine arme shal be streched out: and thou shalt prophecie against it.✦Et ad obsidionem Jerusalem convertes faciem tuam, et brachium tuum erit extentum : et prophetabis adversus eam.
8Behold I have compassed thee with bands: and thou shalt not turn thyself from thy side unto the other side, till thou accomplish the days of thy siege.Behold I haue compassed thee with bandes: and thou shalt not turne thy self from thy side vnto the other side, til thou accomplish the daies of thy siege.✦Ecce circumdedi te vinculis : et non te convertes a latere tuo in latus aliud, donec compleas dies obsidionis tuæ.
9And thou take thee wheat and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and vicia: vetches, a fodder legume: and thou shalt put them into one vessel, and make thee loaves according to the number of the days, that thou shalt sleep upon thy side: three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat it.And thou take thee wheate and barley, and beanes, and lintiles, and millet, and fitches: and thou shalt put them into one vessel, and make thee loaues according to the number of the daies, that thou shalt sleepe vpon thy side: three hundred and ninetie daies shalt thou eate it.✦Et tu, sume tibi frumentum, et hordeum, et fabam, et lentem, et milium, et viciam : et mittes ea in vas unum, et facies tibi panes numero dierum quibus dormies super latus tuum : trecentis et nonaginta diebus comedes illud.
10And thy meat, that thou shalt eat, shall be in weight twenty stateres: a weight of silver, about a shekel a day: from time to time thou shalt eat it.And thy meate, that thou shalt eate, shal be in weight twentie staters a day: from time to time thou shalt eate it.✦Cibus autem tuus, quo vesceris, erit in pondere viginti stateres in die : a tempore usque ad tempus comedes illud.
11And water by measure thou shalt drink, the sixth part of a hin: from time to time thou shalt drink it.And water by measure thou shalt drinke, the sixt part of an hin: from time to time thou shalt drinke it.✦Et aquam in mensura bibes, sextam partem hin : a tempore usque ad tempus bibes illud.
12And as hearth baken barley bread thou shalt eat it: and with the dung that cometh out of a man, thou shalt cover it before their eyes.And as hearth baken barley bread thou shalt eate it: and with the dung that commeth out of a man, thou shalt couer it before their eies.✦Et quasi subcinericium hordeaceum comedes illud, et stercore quod egreditur de homine operies illud in oculis eorum.
13And our Lord said: So shall the children of Israel eat their bread polluted among the Gentiles, to the which I shall cast them out.And our Lord said: So shal the children of Israel eate their bread polluted among the Gentils, to the which I shal cast them out.✦Et dixit Dominus : Sic comedent filii Israël panem suum pollutum inter gentes ad quas ejiciam eos. Et dixi :
14And I said: A, a, a, O Lord God, behold my soul is not polluted, and a dead thing, and thing torn of beasts I have not eaten from mine infancy even till this time, and all unclean flesh hath not entered into my mouth.And I said: A, a, a, ô Lord God, behold my soule is not polluted, & a dead thing, and thing torne of beastes I haue not eaten from mine infancie euen til this time, and al vncleane flesh hath not entered into my mouth.✦A, a, a, Domine Deus, ecce anima mea non est polluta : et morticinum, et laceratum a bestiis non comedi ab infantia mea usque nunc, et non est ingressa in os meum omnis caro immunda.
15And he said to me: Behold I have given thee dung of oxen for man's dung, and thou shalt make thy bread therewith.And he said to me: Behold I haue geuen thee dung of oxen for mans dung, and thou shalt make thy bread therwith.Et dixit ad me : Ecce dedi tibi fimum boum pro stercoribus humanis, et facies panem tuum in eo.
16And he said to me: Son of man: Behold I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread in weight, and in sollicitudo: anxious solicitude, not carelessness but anxiety, and they shall drink water in measure, and in distress.And he said to me: Sonne of man: Behold I wil breake the staffe of bread in Ierusalem: and they shal eate bread in weight, and in carefulnes: and they shal drinke water in measure, and in distresse.✦Et dixit ad me : Fili hominis, ecce ego conteram baculum panis in Jerusalem, et comedent panem in pondere et in sollicitudine, et aquam in mensura et in angustia bibent,
17That bread and water failing, every man may fall against his brother, and they may pine contabescere: waste away in their iniquities.That bread and water fayling, euerie man may fal against his brother, & they may pine away in their iniqnities.✦ut deficientibus pane et aqua, corruat unusquisque ad fratrem suum, et contabescant in iniquitatibus suis.
The reading text follows the 1582 first edition.