² Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause you to hear my words.

¹ Thus said Yahweh, Go, and buy a potter's earthen bottle, and [take] of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests;

² and go forth to the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the gate Harsith, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell you;

¹ God, having in the past spoken to the fathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways,

² at that time Yahweh spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go, and loose the sackcloth from off your loins, and put your shoe from off your foot. He did so, walking naked and barefoot.

¹ Thus says Yahweh to me, Go, and buy you a linen belt, and put it on your loins, and don't put it in water.

²² But if they had stood in my council, then had they caused my people to hear my words, and had turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.

¹ You also, son of man, take a tile, and lay it before you, and portray on it a city, even Jerusalem:

² and lay siege against it, and build forts against it, and cast up a mound against it; set camps also against it, and plant battering rams against it round about.

³ Take for yourself an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between you and the city: and set your face toward it, and it shall be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.

⁴ Moreover lie you on your left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel on it; [according to] the number of the days that you shall lie on it, you shall bear their iniquity.

⁵ For I have appointed the years of their iniquity to be to you a number of days, even three hundred ninety days: so shall you bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.

⁷ Thus he showed me and, behold, the Lord stood beside a wall made by a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand.

⁶ But{TR omits "But" } rise up, and enter into the city, and you will be told what you must do."