Ezekiel Chapter 4

A typical siege foreshadows the famine in Jerusalem

4:1 Now you , son of manהָאָדָם‎
Transliteration: ‘āḏām Pronunciation: aw-dam’ man, human being
man, mankind (much more frequently intended sense in OT) Adam, first man city in Jordan valley For more info click here, take yourself  a brick, and lay it in front of you, and engrave on it the city of Jerusalemיְרוּשָׁלַם‎
Transliteration: yᵊrûšālam – Pronunciation: yer-oo-shaw-lah’-im – proper locative noun meaning “teaching of peace” or possession of peace – also called the city of David and Zion – the chief city of Palestine and capital of the united kingdom and the nation of Judah after the split For more info click here:
4:2 Then lay siege against it, build a siege tower against it, and pour a ramp against it; place camps against it, and put battering rams against it on all sides.
4:3 Then take yourself  an iron pan, and place it like an iron wall between yourself and the city: and set your face against it, and it will be under siege, and you will lay siege to it. This will be a sign to the house of Israelיִשְׂרָאֵל
Transliteration: yiśrā’ēl The name Israel (Septuagint Ancient Greek: Ἰσραήλ, Israēl, “El (God) persists/rules” or “God prevails”) refers to the patriarch Jacob who, according to the Hebrew Bible, was given the name after he successfully wrestled with the Angel of the Lord. The earliest known archaeological artifact to mention the word Israel as a collective is the Merneptah Stele of ancient Egypt (dated to the late-13th century BCE) for more info click here.
4:4 Then lie on your left side, and place the guilt of the house of Israelיִשְׂרָאֵל
Transliteration: yiśrā’ēl The name Israel (Septuagint Ancient Greek: Ἰσραήλ, Israēl, “El (God) persists/rules” or “God prevails”) refers to the patriarch Jacob who, according to the Hebrew Bible, was given the name after he successfully wrestled with the Angel of the Lord. The earliest known archaeological artifact to mention the word Israel as a collective is the Merneptah Stele of ancient Egypt (dated to the late-13th century BCE) for more info click here on it* Ezekiel would lie on his side for 390 days to symbolize 390 years of Israel’s general sinfulness, and another 40 days because the Kingdom of Judah had continued to sin 40 years after the Ten Tribes had been exiled. His suffering would atone somewhat for Israerl’s sins, so that the people wouldn’t be eradicated entirely. (Rashi) – From the Artscroll English Tanach: according to the number of the days that you will lie on it you will bear their guilt.
4:5 I have given you the years of their guilt, according to the number of the days, three hundred ninety days: and you bear the guilt of the house of Israelיִשְׂרָאֵל
Transliteration: yiśrā’ēl The name Israel (Septuagint Ancient Greek: Ἰσραήλ, Israēl, “El (God) persists/rules” or “God prevails”) refers to the patriarch Jacob who, according to the Hebrew Bible, was given the name after he successfully wrestled with the Angel of the Lord. The earliest known archaeological artifact to mention the word Israel as a collective is the Merneptah Stele of ancient Egypt (dated to the late-13th century BCE) for more info click here.
4:6 And when you have finished those, then lie on your right side again , and bear the guilt of the house of Judahיְהוּדָה‎
Modern: Yəhūda, Tiberian: Yŭhūḏā), literally “thanksgiving” or “praise,” is the noun form of the root Y-D-H (ידה), “to thank” or “to praise. The fourth of the six sons of Jacob and Leah. Also referring to the tribe of Judah or The Kingdom of Judah later referred to as Judea – For more info click here forty days: each day corresponding to a year this I have assigned for you.
4:7 Direct your face toward the siege of Jerusalemיְרוּשָׁלַם‎
Transliteration: yᵊrûšālam – Pronunciation: yer-oo-shaw-lah’-im – proper locative noun meaning “teaching of peace” or possession of peace – also called the city of David and Zion – the chief city of Palestine and capital of the united kingdom and the nation of Judah after the split For more info click here, with your arm uncovered, and you will prophesy against it.
4:8 See, [it is as if] I had placed ropes on you so that you won’t turn you from one side to another, till you have completed the days of your siege.
4:9 Now you, take for yourself wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentilsוַעֲדָשִׁים
Transliteration: vaʿăḏāšîm – Lentil (Lens culinaris), an annual legume producing flat, protein-rich seeds, features prominently in Genesis 25:34, where Esau trades his birthright to Jacob for a pot of red lentil stew after hunting. This hardy crop, domesticated in the Near East around 8000 BCE, symbolizes hasty decisions and familial strife; biblical texts also note lentils in offerings (2 Samuel 17:28) and as mourning food, with its botanical identity undisputed due to archaeological evidence from ancient Israelite sites for more info click here, and millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel, and make bread for yourself. [According] to the number of the days that you will lie on your side, three hundred and ninety days are you to eat of it.

4:10 And your food that you will eat will be by weight, twenty shekelsשקל plural שקלים
Shekel or sheqel sheqalim or shekels, is an ancient Mesopotamian coin, usually of silver. A shekel was first a unit of weight—very roughly 11 grams (0.35 ozt)—and became currency in ancient Tyre and ancient Carthage and then in ancient Israel under the Maccabees. (three-quarters of a pound) a day: from time to time will you eat it.
4:11 You will drink water too by measure, the sixth part of a hin (two-thirds of a quart): from time to time will you drink.
4:12 And you will eat it [as] barley cake * To emphasize the desperate nature of the siege, the people would eat barley, which was usually used as fodder, and fuel they would be forced to use human dung – From the Artscroll English Tanach, and you will bake it on pieces of dung that comes out of manהָאָדָם‎
Transliteration: hā’āḏām the man, the human being
man, mankind (much more frequently intended sense in OT) Adam, first man city in Jordan valley For more info click here, in their sight.
4:13 YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here said, So will the Children of Israelיִשְׂרָאֵל
Transliteration: yiśrā’ēl The name Israel (Septuagint Ancient Greek: Ἰσραήλ, Israēl, “El (God) persists/rules” or “God prevails”) refers to the patriarch Jacob who, according to the Hebrew Bible, was given the name after he successfully wrestled with the Angel of the Lord. The earliest known archaeological artifact to mention the word Israel as a collective is the Merneptah Stele of ancient Egypt (dated to the late-13th century BCE) for more info click here eat their food: unclean among the nationsבַּגּוֹיִם‎
Transliteration: bagôyim – Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Absolute (in the sense of massing); a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts:—the Gentiles, the heathen, the nations, the people. For more info click here, where I will banish them.
4:14 Then I said , Alas Adonaiהָאָדוֹן
 the Lord, Pluralis majestatis taken as singular) is the possessive form of adon (“Lord”), along with the first-person singular pronoun enclitic. As with Elohim, Adonai’s grammatical form is usually explained as a plural of majesty. For more info click here YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here! look, my soulנַפְשִׁי
Transliteration: nap̄šî Hebrew Noun: Common Both Singular Construct – Meaning: my soul, myself, my life, my creature, my person, my appetite, my mind, my living being, my desire, my emotion, my passion For more info click here hasn’t been defiled: because from my youth up till now I haven’t eaten anything that died by itself or was killed by wild animals; or has abominable meat ever entered my mouth.
4:15 So he said to me, Look, I have permitted you cow’s dung instead of man’sהָאָדָם‎
Transliteration: ‘āḏām Pronunciation: aw-dam’ man, human being
man, mankind (much more frequently intended sense in OT) Adam, first man city in Jordan valley For more info click here dung, and you can prepare your bread on it.
4:16 Then he said to me, Son of manאָדָם‎
Transliteration: ‘āḏām Pronunciation: aw-dam’ man, human being
man, mankind (much more frequently intended sense in OT) Adam, first man city in Jordan valley For more info click here, look, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalemבִּירוּשָׁלִַ‎
Transliteration: bîrûšālam – proper locative noun meaning “teaching of peace” or possession of peace – also called the city of David and Zion – the chief city of Palestine and capital of the united kingdom and the nation of Judah after the split For more info click here: and people will eat bread by weight, and with worry; and they will drink water by measure, and with horror:
4:17 Because they will lack bread and water, and every man and his brother will be in shock, wasting away in their guilt.