Ezekiel 4:12 - Compare All Versions
Ezekiel 4:9-12 MSG (The Message)
“Next I want you to take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, dried millet and spelt, and mix them in a bowl to make a flat bread. This is your food ration for the 390 days you lie on your side. Measure out about half a pound for each day and eat it on schedule. Also measure out your daily ration of about a pint of water and drink it on schedule. Eat the bread as you would a muffin. Bake the muffins out in the open where everyone can see you, using dried human dung for fuel.”
Ezekiel 4:12 KJV (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.
Ezekiel 4:12 NASB1995 (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)
You shall eat it as a barley cake, having baked it in their sight over human dung.”
Ezekiel 4:12 NCV (New Century Version)
Eat your food as you would eat a barley cake, baking it over human dung where the people can see.”
Ezekiel 4:12 ASV (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.
Ezekiel 4:12 NIV (New International Version)
Eat the food as you would a loaf of barley bread; bake it in the sight of the people, using human excrement for fuel.”
Ezekiel 4:12 NKJV (New King James Version)
And you shall eat it as barley cakes; and bake it using fuel of human waste in their sight.”
Ezekiel 4:12 AMP (Amplified Bible)
You shall eat your food as barley cakes, having baked it in their sight over human dung.”
Ezekiel 4:12 NLT (New Living Translation)
Prepare and eat this food as you would barley cakes. While all the people are watching, bake it over a fire using dried human dung as fuel and then eat the bread.”
Ezekiel 4:12 TPT (The Passion Translation)
Eat the food as you would a barley cake. While everyone can see you, build a fire with dried human excrement, then bake the bread on the coals.”
Ezekiel 4:12 ESV (English Standard Version 2025)
And you shall eat it as a barley cake, baking it in their sight on human dung.”