⁴ We give money for a drink of water, we get our wood for a price.

¹ For the Lord, the Lord of armies, is about to take away from Jerusalem and from Judah all their support; their store of bread and of water;

⁴⁸ For this cause you will become servants to those whom the Lord your God will send against you, without food and drink and clothing, and in need of all things: and he will put a yoke of iron on your neck till he has put an end to you.

⁹ And take for yourself wheat and barley and different sorts of grain, and put them in one vessel and make bread for yourself from them; all the days when you are stretched on your side it will be your food.

¹⁰ And you are to take your food by weight, twenty shekels a day: you are to take it at regular times.

¹¹ And you are to take water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: you are to take it at regular times.

¹² And let your food be barley cakes, cooking it before their eyes with the waste which comes out of a man.

¹³ And the Lord said, Even so the children of Israel will have unclean bread for their food among the nations where I am driving them.

¹⁴ Then I said, Ah, Lord! see, my soul has never been unclean, and I have never taken as my food anything which has come to a natural death or has been broken by beasts, from the time when I was young even till now; no disgusting flesh has ever come into my mouth.

¹⁵ Then he said to me, See, I have given you cow's waste in place of man's waste, and you will make your bread ready on it.

¹⁶ And he said to me, Son of man, see, I will take away from Jerusalem her necessary bread: they will take their bread by weight and with care, measuring out their drinking-water with fear and wonder:

¹⁷ So that they may be in need of bread and water and be wondering at one another, wasting away in their sin.