Bible Verses About Prophets

"As for you, human being, take a clay slab, lay it down in front of you, and draw on it the city of Yerushalayim.

Show it under siege - build towers against it, raise earthworks against it, set up camps against it, and surround it with battering rams.

Then take an iron griddle and put it in place as a wall of iron between yourself and the city, and fix your gaze on it - the city is under siege, and you are the one besieging it. This will be a sign for the house of Isra'el.

"Next, you are to lie on your left side, and have it bear the guilt of the house of Isra'el - for as many days as you lie on your side, you will bear their guilt.

For I am assigning you one day for each year of their guilt; thus you are to bear the guilt of the house of Isra'el for 390 days.

Then, when you have finished that, you are to lie on your right side and bear the guilt of the house of Y'hudah for forty days, each day corresponding to a year; this is what I am assigning you.

You are to fix your gaze on the siege of Yerushalayim, and, with your arm bared, prophesy against it.

I am tying you down with ropes, and you are not to turn from one side to the other until you have completed the days of your siege.

"Take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet and buckwheat; put them together in one bowl; and make bread from it. For as long as you lie on your side, 390 days, this is what you are to eat.

Each day the food you eat must weigh only three-quarters of a pound; you may eat it from time to time [during the day].

You are also to drink a limited amount of water, two-thirds of a quart; you may drink it from time to time [during the day].

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

ADONAI said, "This is how the people of Isra'el will eat their food - unclean - in the nations where I am driving them."

"Now you, human being, take a sharp sword; and use it like a barber's razor to shave your head and beard. Then weigh the hair on a balance-scale, and divide it up.

A third of it you are to burn in the city when the days of the siege are over. Take another third, and hit it with your sword all around the city. Scatter the last third to the wind, and I will pursue them with drawn sword.

Also take a few hairs and tie them up in the folds of your garment.

Again, of these take some; throw them in the fire, and burn them up; from there a fire will come out against the entire house of Isra'el.

"'Forge a chain, for the land is full of capital crimes and the city full of violence.

Calamity will follow calamity, rumor will follow rumor; they will seek a vision from the prophet, but Torah will perish from the cohen and advice from the leaders.

On the fifth day of the sixth month of the sixth year, as I was sitting in my house, and the leaders of Y'hudah were sitting there with me, the hand of Adonai ELOHIM fell on me.

Then a spirit lifted me up and brought me to the east gate of ADONAI's house, the gate that faces eastward. At the entrance of the gate I saw twenty-five men; among them were Ya'azanyah the son of 'Azur and P'latyahu the son of B'nayahu, leaders of the people.

Therefore prophesy against them, human being, prophesy!"

The Spirit of ADONAI fell on me, and he said to me, "Say, 'Here is what ADONAI says: "What you are saying is correct, house of Isra'el; because I know how your minds work.

Then a spirit lifted me up and brought me, in the vision, by the Spirit of God, to the exiles in the land of the Kasdim; after which the vision I had seen left me.

So you, human being, prepare supplies for exile; and during the daytime, as they watch, go away as if you were going into exile - leave your place, and go somewhere else as they watch. Perhaps they will take notice, even though they are a rebellious house.