Ezekiel 4:12

Wycliffe Bible

And thou schalt ete it as barli breed bakun vndur the aischis; and with `a toord that goith out of a man thou schalt hile, it bifore the iyen of hem.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
You will eat it as you would a barley cake and bake it over dried human excrement in their sight.”

Hebrew Names Version
You shall eat it as barley cakes, and you shall bake it in their sight with dung that comes out of man.

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.

English Standard Version
And you shall eat it as a barley cake, baking it in their sight on human dung."

New American Standard Bible
"You shall eat it as a barley cake, having baked it in their sight over human dung."

New Century Version
Eat your food as you would eat a barley cake, baking it over human dung where the people can see."

Amplified Bible
"You shall eat your food as barley cakes, having baked it in their sight over human dung."

World English Bible
You shall eat it as barley cakes, and you shall bake it in their sight with dung that comes out of man.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And thou shalt eate it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it in the dongue that commeth out of man, in their sight.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"You shall eat it as a barley cake, having baked it in their sight over human dung."

Legacy Standard Bible
You shall eat it as a barley cake, having baked it in their sight over human dung."

Berean Standard Bible
And you shall eat the food as you would a barley cake, after you bake it over dried human excrement in the sight of the people."

Contemporary English Version
Use dried human waste to start a fire, then bake the bread on the coals where everyone can watch you.

Complete Jewish Bible
[The bread] you eat is to be baked like barley cakes; you are to bake it before their eyes, using human dung as fuel."

Darby Translation
And thou shalt eat it [as] barley-cake, and thou shalt bake it in their sight with dung that cometh out of man.

Easy-to-Read Version
You must make your bread each day. You must get dry human dung and burn it. Then you must cook the bread over this burning dung. You must eat this bread in front of the people."

George Lamsa Translation
And you shall eat it as if you ate barley cakes, having baked it in their sight with the dung that comes out of men.

Good News Translation
You are to build a fire out of dried human excrement, bake bread on the fire, and eat it where everyone can see you."

Lexham English Bible
And as a bread-cake of barley you shall eat it, and with human excrement you shall bake it before their eyes."

Literal Translation
And you shall eat cakes of barley, and you shall bake it with dung of the excrement of man, in their sight.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Barly cakes shalt thou eate, yet shalt thou first strake the ouer with mas donge, yt they maye se it.

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.

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

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it in their sight with dung that cometh out of man.'

King James Version (1611)
And thou shalt eate it as barley cakes, & thou shalt bake it with doung that commeth out of man in their sight.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Barly cakes shalt thou eate, and them shalt thou bake in mans doung before their eyes.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And thou shalt eat them as a barley cake: thou shalt bake them before their eyes in man’s dung.

English Revised Version
And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it in their sight with dung that cometh out of man.

Update Bible Version
And you shall eat it as barley cakes, and you shall bake it in their sight with dung that comes out of man.

Webster's Bible Translation
And thou shalt eat it [as] barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with human excrement in their sight.

New English Translation
And you must eat the food like you would a barley cake. You must bake it in front of them over a fire made with dried human excrement."

New King James Version
And you shall eat it as barley cakes; and bake it using fuel of human waste in their sight."

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."

New Life Bible
Eat your food as you would barley cakes, making it ready in front of their eyes over a fire burning human waste."

New Revised Standard
You shall eat it as a barley-cake, baking it in their sight on human dung.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and as a barley cake, shalt thou eat it, - and the same with dung proceeding from man, shalt thou bake, before their eyes.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And thou shalt eat it as barley bread baked under the ashes: and thou shalt cover it, in their sight, with the dung that cometh out of a man.

Revised Standard Version
And you shall eat it as a barley cake, baking it in their sight on human dung."

Young's Literal Translation
A barley-cake thou dost eat it, and it with dung -- the filth of man -- thou dost bake before their eyes.

Contextual Overview

⁹ And take thou to thee wheete, and barli, and beenys, and tillis, and mylie, and vetchis; and thou schalt putte tho in to o vesselle. And thou schalt make to thee looues for the noumbre of daies, bi whiche thou schalt slepe on thi side; bi three hundrid and nynti daies thou schalt ete it. ¹⁰ Forsothe thi mete, which thou schalt ete, schal be in weiyte twenti staters in a dai; fro tyme til to tyme thou schalt ete it. ¹¹ And thou schalt drynke watir in mesure, the sixte part of hyn; fro tyme til to tyme thou schalt drynke it. ¹² And thou schalt ete it as barli breed bakun vndur the aischis; and with `a toord that goith out of a man thou schalt hile, it bifore the iyen of hem. ¹³ The Lord seith these thingis, So the sones of Israel schulen ete her breed defoulid among hethene men, to whiche Y schal caste hem out. ¹⁴ And Y seide, A! A! A! Lord God, lo! my soule is not defoulid, and fro my yong childhed til to now Y eet not a thing deed bi it silf, and to-rent of beestis; and al vnclene fleisch entride not in to my mouth. ¹⁵ And he seide to me, Lo! Y haue youe to thee the dung of oxis for mennus toordis; and thou schalt make thi breed with it. ¹⁶ And he seide to me, Sone of man, lo! Y schal al to-breke the staf of breed in Jerusalem, and thei schulen ete her breed in weiyte and in bisynesse, and thei schulen drynke water in mesure and in angwisch; ¹⁷ that whanne breed and watir failen, eche man falle doun to his brother, and thei faile in her wickidnessis.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

cakes: a "round" thing, Genesis 18:6

Reciprocal: Ezekiel 21:6 - before

Cross-References

Genesis 4:3
Sotheli it was don after many daies, that Cayn offride yiftis to the Lord of the fruytis of erthe;

Genesis 4:4
and Abel offride of the first gendrid of his floc, and of the fatnesse of tho. And the Lord bihelde to Abel and to the yiftis of hym;

Genesis 4:14
to dai thou castist me out fro the face of the erthe; and Y schal be hid fro thi face, and Y schal be vnstable of dwellyng and fleynge aboute in erthe; therfore ech man that schal fynde me schal slee me.

Genesis 4:17
Forsothe Cayn knewe his wiif, which conseyuede, and childide Enoth; and Cayn bildide a citee, and clepide the name therof of the name of hise sone Enoth.

Genesis 4:18
Forsothe Enoth gendride Irad, and Irad gendride Manyael, and Manyael gendride Matusael, and Matusael gendride Lameth;

Genesis 4:23
And Lameth seide to his wyues Ada and Sella, Ye wyues of Lameth, here my vois, and herkne my word; for Y haue slayn a man bi my wounde, and a yong wexynge man bi my `violent betyng;

Genesis 4:24
veniaunce schal be youun seuenfold of Cayn, forsothe of Lameth seuentisithis seuensithis.

Leviticus 26:20
youre trauel schal be wastid in veyn, nether the erthe schal brynge forth fruyt, nethir trees schulen yyue applis.

Leviticus 26:36
And Y schal yyue drede in `the hertis of hem, whiche schulen abide of you, in the cuntreis of enemyes; the sown of a leef fleynge schal make hem aferd, and so thei schulen fle it as a swerd; thei schulen falle, while noon pursueth,

Psalms 109:10
Hise sones tremblinge be born ouer, and begge; and be cast out of her habitaciouns.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And thou shalt eat it [as] barley cakes,.... That is, the bread made of wheat, barley, beans, lentiles, millet, and fitches, was to be made in the form of barley cakes, and to be baked as they; not in an oven, but under ashes; and these ashes not of wood, or straw, or turf, but as follows:

and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of men, in their sight: the prophet was to take human dung, and dry it, and then cover the cakes or loaves of his mixed bread with it, and burn it over them, and with it bake it; which must be a very disagreeable task to him, and make the food very nauseous, both to himself and to the Jews, in whose sight it was done; and this shows scarcity of fuel, and the severity of the famine; that they had not fuel to bake with, or could not stay till it was baked in an oven, and therefore took this method; as well as points at what they were to eat when carried captive, as follows:

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

In eastern countries where fuel is scarce the want is supplied by dried cow-dung laid up for the winter. Barley cakes were (and are) baked under hot ashes without an oven. The dung here is to be burned to ashes, and the ashes so employed.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 4:12. Thou shalt bake it with dung — Dried ox and cow dung is a common fuel in the east; and with this, for want of wood and coals, they are obliged to prepare their food. Indeed, dried excrement of every kind is gathered. Here, the prophet is to prepare his bread with dry human excrement. And when we know that this did not come in contact with the bread, and was only used to warm the plate, (see Ezekiel 4:3,) on which the bread was laid over the fire, it removes all the horror and much of the disgust. This was required to show the extreme degree of wretchedness to which they should be exposed; for, not being able to leave the city to collect the dried excrements of beasts, the inhabitants during the siege would be obliged, literally, to use dried human ordure for fuel. The very circumstances show that this was the plain fact of the case. However, we find that the prophet was relieved from using this kind of fuel, for cow's dung was substituted at his request. See Ezekiel 4:15.