Ezekiel 24:22
Good News Translation
Then you will do what I have done. You will not cover your faces or eat the food that mourners eat.

New Revised Standard Version
And you shall do as I have done; you shall not cover your upper lip or eat the bread of mourners.

Contemporary English Version
Then you will do the same things I have done. You will leave your face uncovered and refuse to eat the food that mourners usually eat.

New American Bible
Then you shall do as I have done, not covering your beards nor eating the bread of mourning.

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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Ezekiel 24:16,17 Son of man, behold I take from thee the desire of thy eyes with a stroke, and thou shall not lament, nor weep; neither shall thy tears run down. . . .

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

Psalm 78:64 Their priests fell by the sword: and their widows did not mourn.

Jeremiah 16:4-7 They 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. . . .

Jeremiah 47:3 At the noise of the marching of arms, and of his soldiers, at the rushing of his chariots, and the multitude of his wheels. The fathers have not looked back to the children, for feebleness of hands,

Amos 6:9,10 And if there remain ten men in one house, they also shall die. . . .

Context
Ezekiel's Wife Dies
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 desire, and for which your soul feareth: 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 faces, nor shall you eat the meat of mourners.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.…
Cross References
Leviticus 13:45
Shall have his clothes hanging loose, his head bare, his mouth covered with a cloth: and he shall cry out that he is defiled and unclean.

Ezekiel 24:21
Speak 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 desire, and for which your soul feareth: your sons, and your daughters, whom you have left, shall fall by the sword.

Ezekiel 24:23
You 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.

Ezekiel 24:21
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