10 Eat only a small loaf of bread each day
11 and drink only two large cups of water.
12 Use dried human waste to start a fire, then bake the bread on the coals where everyone can watch you.
13 When I scatter the people of Israel among the nations, they will also have to eat food that is unclean, just as you must do.
14 I said, “Lord God, please don't make me do that! Never in my life have I eaten food that would make me unacceptable to you. I've never eaten anything that died a natural death or was killed by a wild animal or that you said was unclean.”
15 The Lord replied, “Instead of human waste, I will let you bake your bread on a fire made from cow manure.
16 Ezekiel, the people of Jerusalem will starve. They will have so little food and water that they will be afraid and hopeless.