Ezekiel 4:1-8 - Siege Of Jerusalem Illustrated On A Brick

¹ Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and portray upon it a city, even Jerusalem. ² And lay siege against it, and build forts against it, and cast up a mound against it. Also set camps against it, and plant battering rams against it round about. ³ And take thou to thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city. And set thy face toward it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shall lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.

⁴ Moreover lay thou upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it. [According to] the number of the days that thou shall lay upon it, thou shall bear their iniquity. ⁵ For I have appointed the years of their iniquity to be a number of days to thee, even three hundred and ninety days. So thou shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel. ⁶ And again, when thou have accomplished these, thou shall lay on thy right side, and shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days, each day for a year. I have appointed it to thee. ⁷ And thou shall set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, with thine arm uncovered, and thou shall prophesy against it. ⁸ And, behold, I lay bands upon thee, and thou shall not turn thee from one side to the other, till thou have accomplished the days of thy siege.