Ezekiel 4:3-4

4:3 Then for your part take an iron frying pan ¹  and set it up as an iron wall between you and the city. Set your face toward it. It is to be under siege; you are to besiege it. This is a sign ²  for the house of Israel.

4:4 “Also for your part lie on your left side and place the iniquity ³  of the house of Israel on it. For the number of days you lie on your side you will bear their iniquity.

¹ tn Or “a griddle,” that is, some sort of plate for cooking.

² tn That is, a symbolic object lesson.

³ tn Or “punishment” (also in vv. 5, 6).