You will do as I have done. You won’t cover your lips or eat mourner’s bread.
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You will do as I have done. You won’t cover your lips or eat mourner’s bread.
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And ye shall do as I have done: ye shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.
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And ye shall do as I have done: ye shall not cover your upper lips, nor eat the bread of men;
Cross-references (6)
Passages linked to Ezekiel 24:22 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Job 27:15 Those who remain of him will be buried in death. His widows will make no lamentation.
- Psalms 78:64 Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows couldn’t weep.
- Jeremiah 16:4-7 “They will die grievous deaths. They will not be lamented, neither will they be buried. They will be as dung on the surface of the ground. They will be consumed by the sword and by famine. Their dead bodies will be food for the birds of the sky and for the animals of the earth.” For Yahweh says, “Don’t enter into the house of mourning. Don’t go to lament. Don’t bemoan them, for I have taken away my peace from this people,” says Yahweh, “even loving kindness and tender mercies. Both great and small will die in this land. They will not be buried. Men won’t lament for them, cut themselves, or make themselves bald for them. Men won’t break bread for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead. Men won’t give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.
- Jeremiah 47:3 At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong ones, at the rushing of his chariots, at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers don’t look back to their children for feebleness of hands;
- Ezekiel 24:16-17 “Son of man, behold, I will take away from you the desire of your eyes with a stroke: yet you shall neither mourn nor weep, neither shall your tears run down. 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.”
- Amos 6:9-10 It will happen, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die. “When a man’s relative carries him, even he who burns him, to bring bodies out of the house, and asks him who is in the innermost parts of the house, ‘Is there yet any with you?’ And he says, ‘No;’ then he will say, ‘Hush! Indeed we must not mention Yahweh’s name.’
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Eze 24:22 And ye shall do as I have…
Eze 24:22 And ye shall do as I have done: ye shall not cover [your] lips, nor eat the bread of men.
Ver. 22. And ye shall do as I have done.] Your grief shall be above tears, you shall be so overgone with it; besides you shall have neither leisure nor leave of your enemies to bewail your losses, &c.
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Ye shall not cover.] See on Eze 24:17. Antonius Margarita, a Christian Jew, hath written a book of the Jewish rites or superstitions at the burial of the dead, and otherwise; so hath Leo Modena, another Jew, but no Christian.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Ye shall do as I have done, when you…
Ye shall do as I have done, when you are in captivity, where you cannot, may not use your own customs and rites on these or any other occasions.
Ye shall not cover your lips: Eze 24:17.
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Nor eat the bread of men: see Eze 24:17.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And your tires shall be upon your heads, and…
And your tires shall be upon your heads, and your shoes upon your feet..... As will be necessary while travelling, and when carrying captive to a foreign country, as now will be their case:
ye shall not mourn nor weep; shall not dare to do it, because of their enemies; and, moreover, so great should be their miseries and calamities, that they should be struck dumb, and quite astonished and stupefied with them; that they should not be able to vent their sorrow by an outward act of mourning:
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but ye shall pine away for your iniquities; without any true sense of them, or godly sorrow for them, but in wretched hardness of heart, and black despair:
and mourn one towards another; not to God, confessing their sins, being contrite and penitent; but to one another, fretting, murmuring, and complaining at the hand of God upon them: this seems to denote the private way of mourning they should use for fear of the enemy, when they could get together by themselves, as well as their disregard to God, against whom they had sinned.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Ye shall do - When you are in captivity,…
Ye shall do - When you are in captivity, where you may not use your own customs.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain (Jer 16:6-7). So general shall be the calamity, that…
(Jer 16:6-7). So general shall be the calamity, that all ordinary usages of mourning shall be suspended.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 you will melt away
you will melt away
Here "melt away" is a metaphor for wasting away and dying. AT: "you will become very thin and slowly die" (See: Metaphor)
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in your iniquities
This implies that God will not forgive the sins of these people. AT: "and I will not forgive your sins" (See: Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information)
groan
This is the sound a person makes who wants help, but who has too much pain or sorrow to speak.
So Ezekiel will be a sign for you
Here the word "sign" refers to something that communicates a special warning to those who see it. Yahweh speaks of Ezekiel and his actions as being this warning. See how you translated this metaphor in Ezekiel 12:6. AT: "So Ezekiel will be a warning for you" (See: Metaphor)
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iniquity
Ezekiel
sign
know
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