Ezekiel 24:22

And you shall do as I have done: you shall not cover your faces, nor shall you eat the meat of mourners.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

And ye shall do as I have done: ye shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.

In Context

21Speak to the house of Israel: Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will profane my sanctuary, the glory of your realm, and the thing that your eyes de sire, and for which your soul feareth: your sons, and your daughters, whom you have left, shall fall by the sword.

23You shall have crowns on your heads, and shoes on your feet: you shall not lament nor weep, but you shall pine away for your iniquities, and every one shall sigh with his brother.

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Cross References

Job 27:15They that shall remain of him, shall be buried in death, and his widows shall not weep.

Jeremiah 16:4They shall die by the death of grievous illnesses: they shall not be lamented, and they shall not be buried, they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed with the sword, and with famine: and their carcasses shall be meat for the fowls of the air, and for the beasts of the earth.

Ezekiel 24:16Son of man, behold I take from thee the desire of thy eyes with a stroke: and thou shalt not lament, nor weep : neither shall thy tears run down.

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 24:16-27

The Death of the Prophet's Wife; A Sign of Jerusalem's Ruin. ( b. c. 590.) 15 Also the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 16 Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes with a stroke: yet neither shalt thou mourn nor weep, neither shall thy tears run down. 17 Forbear to cry, make no mourning for the dead, bind the tire of thine head upon thee, and put on thy shoes upon thy feet, and cover not thy lips, and eat not the bread of men. 18 So I spake unto the people in the morning: and at… Read the whole commentary →

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