Your turbans will be on your heads, and your sandals on your feet. You won’t mourn or weep; but you will pine away in your iniquities, and moan one toward another.
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Your turbans will be on your heads, and your sandals on your feet. You won’t mourn or weep; but you will pine away in your iniquities, and moan one toward another.
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And your tires shall be upon your heads, and your shoes upon your feet: ye shall not mourn nor weep; but ye shall pine away for your iniquities, and mourn one toward another.
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and your tires shall be upon your heads, and your shoes upon your feet; ye shall not make lamentation nor weep; but ye shall pine away in your iniquities, and moan one toward another.
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Passages linked to Ezekiel 24:23 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Leviticus 26:39 Those of you who are left will pine away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers they shall pine away with them.
- Ezekiel 4:17 that they may lack bread and water, be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.
- Ezekiel 33:10 “You, son of man, tell the house of Israel: ‘You say this, “Our transgressions and our sins are on us, and we pine away in them. How then can we live?” ’
- 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.
- Isaiah 59:11 We all roar like bears and moan bitterly like doves. We look for justice, but there is none, for salvation, but it is far off from us.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Eze 24:23 And your tires [shall be] upon your…
Eze 24:23 And your tires [shall be] upon your heads, and your shoes upon your feet: ye shall not mourn nor weep; but ye shall pine away for your iniquities, and mourn one toward another.
Ver. 23. But ye shall pine away for your iniquities.] Non tam stupidi prae maestitia, quam prae malitia stipites. {a} This was long since threatened, {Lev 26:39} and it is reserved to the last, as not the least of those dismal judgments.
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{a} Oecolamp.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain See Eze 24:16,17.
See Eze 24:16,17.
Ye shall pine away; you shall languish with grief and secret sorrow, when you shall not dare to show it openly, lest you irritate your tyrannical masters, who will expect that nothing grieve you that rejoiceth them.
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For your iniquities; the punishment of your iniquities, which have made your land, city, temple, and families desolate and miserable.
And mourn one toward another; in secret, Jew with Jew, you shall bewail what you durst not openly.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Thus Ezekiel is unto you a sign,.... These are…
Thus Ezekiel is unto you a sign,.... These are the words of the prophet concerning himself; observing that in all the above things he was a sign to the Jews of what should befall them, and what should be their case:
and according to all that he hath done shall ye do; however it might be then a matter of scorn and derision:
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and when this cometh: when this prophecy comes to pass, and all these calamities come upon the city and temple:
ye shall know that I am the Lord God; omniscient, omnipotent, true, and faithful.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Pine away - You shall languish with secret sorrow,…
Pine away - You shall languish with secret sorrow, when you shall not dare to shew it openly.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain ye shall not mourn . . . but .…
ye shall not mourn . . . but . . . pine away for your iniquities--The Jews' not mourning was to be not the result of insensibility, any more than Ezekiel's not mourning for his wife was not from want of feeling. They could not in their exile manifest publicly their lamentation, but they would privately "mourn one to another." Their "iniquities" would then be their chief sorrow ("pining away"), as feeling that these were the cause of their sufferings (compare Lev 26:39; Lam 3:39). The fullest fulfilment is still future (Zac 12:10-14).
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 23. Ye shall not mourn nor weep — Does…
23. Ye shall not mourn nor weep — Does this mean that the people shall be stunned and speechless over the destruction of Jerusalem as was Ezekiel over the loss of his wife, or that they are forbidden to complain at this blow which comes from God?
Mourn — Rather, moan.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 23. pine away for] in your iniquities; Eze_33:10; Lev_26:39.
23. pine away for] in your iniquities; Eze_33:10; Lev_26:39.
mourn one towards] moan. The unparalleled severity of the stroke will paralyse grief and prevent it expressing itself.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (23) Ye shall pine away.—In the tumult, distress, and…
(23) Ye shall pine away.—In the tumult, distress, and captivity of the approaching judgment there would be no opportunity for the outward display of grief; but all the more should it press upon them inwardly, and, according to the terrible threatening of Lev_26:39, they should “pine away in their iniquity” in their enemies’ land. In the original the preposition is the same here as in Leviticus, “in your iniquity.”
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