And there the hand of the Lord came over me. “Arise, go out into the plain”, and the spirit came over me and God commanded me: Go, shut yourself inside your house. They will put ropes on you, and you will not go out among them. I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth, that you will be mute. But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you shall tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh! Take a tablet, and portray on it Jerusalem. Lay siege against it, build forts. Cast up a mound against it. Set camps against it. Plant battering rams against it all around. Take a wall of iron between you and the city. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.