Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Eat the food as you would a loaf of barley bread; bake it in the sight of the people, using human excrement for fuel.” New Living Translation Prepare and eat this food as you would barley cakes. While all the people are watching, bake it over a fire using dried human dung as fuel and then eat the bread.” English Standard Version And you shall eat it as a barley cake, baking it in their sight on human dung.” Berean Standard Bible And you shall eat the food as you would a barley cake, after you bake it over dried human excrement in the sight of the people.” King James Bible And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight. New King James Version And you shall eat it as barley cakes; and bake it using fuel of human waste in their sight.” New American Standard Bible You shall eat it as a barley cake, having baked it in their sight over human dung.” NASB 1995 “You shall eat it as a barley cake, having baked it in their sight over human dung.” NASB 1977 “And you shall eat it as a barley cake, having baked it in their sight over human dung.” Legacy Standard Bible You shall eat it as a barley cake, having baked it in their sight over human dung.” Amplified Bible You shall eat your food as barley cakes, having baked it in their sight over human dung.” Christian Standard Bible You will eat it as you would a barley cake and bake it over dried human excrement in their sight.” Holman Christian Standard Bible You will eat it as you would a barley cake and bake it over dried human excrement in their sight.” American Standard Version And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it in their sight with dung that cometh out of man. Aramaic Bible in Plain English And you shall eat a flat cake of barley that is baked on the dung of a son of man in their sight Brenton Septuagint Translation And thou shalt eat them as a barley cake: thou shalt bake them before their eyes in man's dung. Contemporary English Version Use dried human waste to start a fire, then bake the bread on the coals where everyone can watch you. Douay-Rheims Bible And thou shalt eat it as barley bread baked under the ashes: and thou shalt cover it, in their sight, with the dung that cometh out of a man. English Revised Version And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it in their sight with dung that cometh out of man. GOD'S WORD® Translation Eat the bread as you would eat barley loaves. Bake the bread in front of people, using human excrement for fuel." Good News Translation You are to build a fire out of dried human excrement, bake bread on the fire, and eat it where everyone can see you." International Standard Version You are to eat it as barley cakes and bake it right in front of them, using dried human dung for cooking fuel." JPS Tanakh 1917 And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it in their sight with dung that cometh out of man.' Literal Standard Version And you eat it [as] barley-cake, and it with dung—the filth of man—you bake before their eyes.” Majority Standard Bible And you shall eat the food as you would a barley cake, after you bake it over dried human excrement in the sight of the people.” New American Bible And the barley cake you eat you must bake on human excrement in the sight of all. NET Bible And 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." New Revised Standard Version You shall eat it as a barley-cake, baking it in their sight on human dung. New Heart English Bible You shall eat it as barley cakes, and you shall bake it in their sight with dung that comes out of man." Webster's Bible Translation And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with human excrement in their sight. World English Bible You shall eat it as barley cakes, and you shall bake it in their sight with dung that comes out of man.” Young's Literal Translation A barley-cake thou dost eat it, and it with dung -- the filth of man -- thou dost bake before their eyes. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context The Defiled Bread…11You are also to measure out a sixth of a hin of water to drink, and you are to drink it at set times. 12And you shall eat the food as you would a barley cake, after you bake it over dried human excrement in the sight of the people.” 13Then the LORD said, “This is how the Israelites will eat their defiled bread among the nations to which I will banish them.”… Cross References Genesis 19:3 But Lot insisted so strongly that they followed him into his house. He prepared a feast for them and baked unleavened bread, and they ate. Isaiah 36:12 But the Rabshakeh replied, "Has my master sent me to speak these words only to you and your master, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are destined with you to eat their own dung and drink their own urine?" Ezekiel 4:11 You are also to measure out a sixth of a hin of water to drink, and you are to drink it at set times. Treasury of Scripture And you shall eat it as barley cakes, and you shall bake it with dung that comes out of man, in their sight. No references listed for this verse. Jump to Previous Bake Baked Baking Barley Cake Cakes Cooking Dung Eat Excrement Eyes Filth Food Fuel Human Sight UsingJump to Next Bake Baked Baking Barley Cake Cakes Cooking Dung Eat Excrement Eyes Filth Food Fuel Human Sight UsingEzekiel 4 1. Under type of a siege is shown the time from the defection of Jeroboam to captivity9. By the provision of the siege, is shown the hardness of the famine (12) As barley cakes.--These were commonly cooked in the hot ashes, hence the especial defilement caused by the fuel required to be used. Against this the prophet pleads, not merely as revolting in itself, but as ceremonially polluting (Ezekiel 4:14; see Leviticus 5:3; Leviticus 7:21), and a mitigation of the requirement is granted to him (Ezekiel 4:15). In their sight--This is still a part of the vision. The words have been thought to determine that the whole transaction was an actual symbolic act and not a vision; but this does not follow. It need only have been a part of the vision that what was done was done publicly. Verse 12. - Thou shall bake it with dung, etc. The process of baking in ashes was as old as the time of Abraham (Genesis 18:6), and continues in Arabia and Syria to the present day. The kneaded dough was rolled into thin flat cakes, and they were placed upon, or hung over, the hot wood embers of the hearth or oven. But in a besieged city the supply of wood for fuel soon fails. The first resource is found, as still often happens in the East, in using the dried dung of camels or of cattle. Before Ezekiel's mind there came the vision of a yet more terrible necessity. That supply also might tail, and then men would be forced to use the dried contents of the "draught houses" or cesspools of Jerusalem. They would be compelled almost literally to fulfil the taunt of Rabshakeh (Isaiah 36:12). That thought, as bringing with it the ceremonial pollution of Leviticus 5:3: 7:21, was as revolting to Ezekiel as it is to us; but like Dante, in a like revolting symbolism ('Inf.,' 18:114), he does not shrink from naming it. It came to him, as with the authority of a Divine command, that he was even to do this, to represent the extreme horrors of the siege. And all this was to be done visibly, before the eyes of his neighbours at Tel-Abib.Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew And you shall eatתֹּֽאכֲלֶ֑נָּה (tō·ḵă·len·nāh) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular | third person feminine singular Strong's 398: To eat [the food] וְהִ֗יא (wə·hî) Conjunctive waw | Pronoun - third person feminine singular Strong's 1931: He, self, the same, this, that, as, are as you would a barley שְׂעֹרִ֖ים (śə·‘ō·rîm) Noun - feminine plural Strong's 8184: Barley cake, וְעֻגַ֥ת (wə·‘u·ḡaṯ) Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular construct Strong's 5692: A disc or cake of bread after you bake תְּעֻגֶ֖נָה (tə·‘u·ḡe·nāh) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular | third person feminine singular Strong's 5746: To bake it over dried human הָֽאָדָ֔ם (hā·’ā·ḏām) Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 120: Ruddy, a human being excrement בְּגֶֽלְלֵי֙ (bə·ḡel·lê) Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural construct Strong's 1561: Dung in the sight [of the people].” לְעֵינֵיהֶֽם׃ (lə·‘ê·nê·hem) Preposition-l | Noun - cdc | third person masculine plural Strong's 5869: An eye, a fountain Links Ezekiel 4:12 NIVEzekiel 4:12 NLT Ezekiel 4:12 ESV Ezekiel 4:12 NASB Ezekiel 4:12 KJV Ezekiel 4:12 BibleApps.com Ezekiel 4:12 Biblia Paralela Ezekiel 4:12 Chinese Bible Ezekiel 4:12 French Bible Ezekiel 4:12 Catholic Bible OT Prophets: Ezekiel 4:12 You shall eat it as barley cakes (Ezek. 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