Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Barley cakes shalt thou eat, yet shalt thou first strike them over with man's dung, that they may see it."
New American Standard Bible
You shall eat it as a barley cake, having baked it in their sight over human
King James Version
And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight.
Holman Bible
You will eat it as you would a barley cake and bake it over dried human excrement in their sight.”
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."
A Conservative Version
And thou shall eat it as barley cakes, and thou shall bake it in their sight with dung that comes out of man.
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.
Amplified
You shall eat your food as barley cakes, having baked it in their sight over human dung.”
Bible in Basic English
And let your food be barley cakes, cooking it before their eyes with the waste which comes out of a man.
Darby Translation
And thou shalt eat it as barley-cake, and thou shalt bake it in their sight with dung that cometh out of man.
Julia Smith Translation
And thou shalt eat it cakes of barley, and it shall be baked with dung coming forth of man, before their eyes.
King James 2000
And you shall eat it as barley cakes, and you shall bake it, using human waste, in their sight.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And [as a] bread-cake of barley you shall eat it, and {with human excrement} you shall bake it before their eyes."
Modern King James verseion
And you shall eat it as barley cakes, and you shall bake it with dung of the excrement of man, in their sight.
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 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."
The Emphasized Bible
and as a barley cake, shalt thou eat it, - and the same with dung proceeding from man, shalt thou bake, before their eyes.
Webster
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
A barley-cake thou dost eat it, and it with dung -- the filth of man -- thou dost bake before their eyes.
Themes
Bread » How prepared » On coals of dung
Instruction » Eating bread mixed with dung
Prayer » Answered » Ezekiel, to have the baking of his bread of affliction changed
Interlinear
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Ezekiel 4:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
Ezekiel's Strange Defiled Meal
11 Thou shalt drink also a certain measure of water: Namely, the sixth part of a Hin shalt thou drink daily from the beginning to the end. 12 Barley cakes shalt thou eat, yet shalt thou first strike them over with man's dung, that they may see it." 13 And with that said the LORD, "Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread in the midst of the Gentiles, among whom I will scatter them."
Cross References
Genesis 18:6
And Abraham went a pace into his tent unto Sara, and said, Make ready at once three pecks of fine meal; knead it, and make cakes."
Isaiah 36:12
Then answered Rabshakeh, "Think ye, that the king sent me to speak this only unto you? Hath he not sent me to them also, that lie upon the wall? That they be not compelled to eat their own dung, and drink their own stale with you?"