Sigh, but not aloud. Make no mourning for the dead. Bind your headdress on you, and put your sandals on your feet. Don’t cover your lips, and don’t eat mourner’s bread.”
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Ezekiel 24:17 in context
Ezekiel 24:14–20
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“‘“I, the LORD, have spoken it. It will happen, and I will do it. I won’t go back. I won’t spare. I won’t repent. According to your ways and according to your doings, they will judge you,” says the Lord GOD.’”
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Also the LORD’s word came to me, saying,
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“Son of man, behold, I will take away from you the desire of your eyes with one stroke; yet you shall neither mourn nor weep, neither shall your tears run down.
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Sigh, but not aloud. Make no mourning for the dead. Bind your headdress on you, and put your sandals on your feet. Don’t cover your lips, and don’t eat mourner’s bread.”
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So I spoke to the people in the morning, and at evening my wife died. So I did in the morning as I was commanded.
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The people asked me, “Won’t you tell us what these things mean to us, that you act like this?”
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Then I said to them, “The LORD’s word came to me, saying,
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