Ezekiel 24:22
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New International Version (©2011)
And you will do as I have done. You will not cover your mustache and beard or eat the customary food of mourners.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Then you will do as Ezekiel has done. You will not mourn in public or console yourselves by eating the food brought by friends.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And you shall do as I have done; you shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
You will do as I have done; you will not cover your mustache and you will not eat the bread of men.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And ye shall do as I have done: ye shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Then you will do just as I have done: You will not cover your mustache or eat the bread of mourners.

International Standard Version (©2012)
That's why you will soon be doing what I've just done. You are not to cover your mouth or eat what your comforters bring to you.

NET Bible (©2006)
Then you will do as I have done: You will not cover your lip or eat food brought by others.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Then you must do as I did. Don't cover your faces or eat the food that mourners eat.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And you shall do as I have done: you shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.

American King James Version
And you shall do as I have done: you shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.

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

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

Darby Bible Translation
And ye shall do as I have done: ye shall not cover the beard, neither eat the bread of men;

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

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

World English Bible
You shall do as I have done: you shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.

Young's Literal Translation
And ye have done as I have done, On the upper lip ye are not covered, And bread of men ye do not eat.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

24:15-27 Though mourning for the dead is a duty, yet it must be kept under by religion and right reason: we must not sorrow as men that have no hope. Believers must not copy the language and expressions of those who know not God. The people asked the meaning of the sign. God takes from them all that was dearest to them. And as Ezekiel wept not for his affliction, so neither should they weep for theirs. Blessed be God, we need not pine away under our afflictions; for should all comforts fail, and all sorrows be united, yet the broken heart and the mourner's prayer are always acceptable before God.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And ye shall do as I have done,.... When his wife died, and as he was ordered by the Lord; the meaning of Which they were now inquiring:

ye shall not cover your lips; as a token of mourning; nor use any other of their country rites and ceremonies, for fear of provoking their enemies, in whose hands they shall be:

nor eat the bread of men; or "of mourners", as the Targum; there shall be none to comfort them, or send bread to them; they shall all be alike mourners.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

22. (Jer 16:6, 7). So general shall be the calamity, that all ordinary usages of mourning shall be suspended.

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Ezekiel's Wife Dies
…21Speak to the house of Israel, Thus said the Lord GOD; Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the excellency of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pities; and your sons and your daughters whom you have left shall fall by the sword. 22And you shall do as I have done: you shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men. 23And your tires shall be on your heads, and your shoes on your feet: you shall not mourn nor weep; but you shall pine away for your iniquities, and mourn one toward another. …

Leviticus 13:45 "Anyone with such a defiling disease must wear torn clothes, let their hair be unkempt, cover the lower part of their face and cry out, 'Unclean! Unclean!'
Ezekiel 24:21 Say to the people of Israel, 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I am about to desecrate my sanctuary--the stronghold in which you take pride, the delight of your eyes, the object of your affection. The sons and daughters you left behind will fall by the sword.
Ezekiel 24:23 You will keep your turbans on your heads and your sandals on your feet. You will not mourn or weep but will waste away because of your sins and groan among yourselves.