Ezekiel 24:17

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Let there be no sound of sorrow; make no weeping for your dead, put on your head-dress and your shoes on your feet, let not your lips be covered, and do not take the food of those in grief.

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  • Hos 9:4 : 4 They will give no wine offering to the Lord, they will not make offerings ready for him; their bread will be like the bread of those in sorrow; all who take it will be unclean, because their bread will be only for their desire, it will not come into the house of the Lord.
  • Lev 21:10 : 10 And he who is the chief priest among his brothers, on whose head the holy oil has been put, who is marked out to put on the holy robes, may not let his hair go loose or have his clothing out of order as a sign of sorrow.
  • 2 Sam 15:30 : 30 And David went up the slopes of the Mount of Olives weeping all the way, with his head covered and no shoes on his feet: and all the people who were with him, covering their heads, went up weeping.
  • Lev 10:6 : 6 And Moses said to Aaron and to Eleazar and Ithamar, his sons, Do not let your hair be loose, and give no signs of grief; so that death may not overtake you, and his wrath come on all the people; but let there be weeping among your brothers and all the house of Israel for this burning of the Lord's fire.
  • Lev 13:45 : 45 And the leper who has the disease on him is to go about with signs of grief, with his hair loose and his mouth covered, crying, Unclean, unclean.
  • Ps 37:7 : 7 Take your rest in the Lord, waiting quietly for him; do not be angry because of the man who does well in his evil ways, and gives effect to his bad designs.
  • Ps 39:9 : 9 I was quiet, and kept my mouth shut; because you had done it.
  • Ps 46:10 : 10 Be at peace in the knowledge that I am God: I will be lifted up among the nations, I will be honoured through all the earth.
  • Jer 16:4-7 : 4 Death from evil diseases will overtake them; there will be no weeping for them and their bodies will not be put to rest; they will be like waste on the face of the earth: the sword and need of food will put an end to them; their dead bodies will be meat for the birds of heaven and for the beasts of the earth. 5 For this is what the Lord has said: Do not go into the house of sorrow, do not go to make weeping or songs of grief for them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, says the Lord, even mercy and pity. 6 Death will overtake great as well as small in the land: their bodies will not be put in a resting-place, and no one will be weeping for them or wounding themselves or cutting off their hair for them: 7 No one will make a feast for them in sorrow, to give them comfort for the dead, or put to their lips the cup of comfort on account of their father or their mother.
  • Ezek 24:22-23 : 22 And you will do as I have done, not covering your lips or taking the food of those in grief. 23 And your head-dresses will be on your heads and your shoes on your feet: there will be no sorrow or weeping; but you will be wasting away in the punishment of your evil-doing, and you will be looking at one another in wonder.
  • Amos 8:3 : 3 And the songs of the king's house will be cries of pain in that day, says the Lord God: great will be the number of the dead bodies, and everywhere they will put them out without a word.
  • Mic 3:7 : 7 And the seers will be shamed, and the readers of the future will be at a loss, all of them covering their lips; for there is no answer from God.
  • Hab 2:20 : 20 But the Lord is in his holy Temple: let all the earth be quiet before him.

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  • Ezek 24:22-24
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    82%

    22 And you will do as I have done, not covering your lips or taking the food of those in grief.

    23 And your head-dresses will be on your heads and your shoes on your feet: there will be no sorrow or weeping; but you will be wasting away in the punishment of your evil-doing, and you will be looking at one another in wonder.

    24 And Ezekiel will be a sign to you; everything he has done you will do: when this takes place, you will be certain that I am the Lord.

  • Ezek 24:16
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    16 Son of man, see, I am taking away the desire of your eyes by disease: but let there be no sorrow or weeping or drops running from your eyes.

  • Jer 16:5-8
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    5 For this is what the Lord has said: Do not go into the house of sorrow, do not go to make weeping or songs of grief for them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, says the Lord, even mercy and pity.

    6 Death will overtake great as well as small in the land: their bodies will not be put in a resting-place, and no one will be weeping for them or wounding themselves or cutting off their hair for them:

    7 No one will make a feast for them in sorrow, to give them comfort for the dead, or put to their lips the cup of comfort on account of their father or their mother.

    8 And you are not to go into the house of feasting, or be seated with them to take food or drink.

  • Ezek 24:18-19
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    18 So in the morning I was teaching the people and in the evening death took my wife; and in the morning I did what I had been ordered to do.

    19 And the people said to me, Will you not make clear to us the sense of these things; is it for us you do them?

  • Isa 22:12
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    12 And in that day the Lord, the Lord of armies, was looking for weeping, and cries of sorrow, cutting off of the hair, and putting on the clothing of grief:

  • Jer 22:10
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    10 Let there be no weeping for the dead, and make no songs of grief for him: but make bitter weeping for him who has gone away, for he will never come back or see again the country of his birth.

  • Amos 8:10
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    10 Your feasts will be turned into sorrow and all your melody into songs of grief; everyone will be clothed with haircloth, and the hair of every head will be cut; I will make the weeping like that for an only son, and the end of it like a bitter day.

  • Ezek 3:25
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    25 But see, O son of man, I will put bands on you, prisoning you in them, and you will not go out among them:

  • Joel 1:8-9
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    8 Make sounds of grief like a virgin dressed in haircloth for the husband of her early years.

    9 The meal offering and the drink offering have been cut off from the house of the Lord; the priests, the Lord's servants, are sorrowing.

  • Ezek 4:8-9
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    8 And see, I will put bands on you; and you will be stretched out without turning from one side to the other till the days of your attack are ended.

    9 And take for yourself wheat and barley and different sorts of grain, and put them in one vessel and make bread for yourself from them; all the days when you are stretched on your side it will be your food.

  • Isa 3:24
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    24 And in the place of sweet spices will be an evil smell, and for a fair band a thick cord; for a well-dressed head there will be the cutting-off of the hair, and for a beautiful robe there will be the clothing of sorrow; the mark of the prisoner in place of the ornaments of the free.

  • Joel 1:13
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    13 Put haircloth round you and give yourselves to sorrow, you priests; give cries of grief, you servants of the altar: come in, and, clothed in haircloth, let the night go past, you servants of my God: for the meal offering and the drink offering have been kept back from the house of your God.

  • Ezek 21:6
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    6 Make sounds of grief, son of man; with body bent and a bitter heart make sounds of grief before their eyes.

  • 1 Kgs 13:22
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    22 But have come back, and have taken food and water in this place where he said you were to take no food or water; your dead body will not be put to rest with your fathers.

  • Mic 1:10-11
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    10 Give no word of it in Gath, let there be no weeping at all: at Beth-le-aphrah be rolling in the dust.

    11 Be uncovered and go away, you who are living in Shaphir: the one living in Zaanan has not come out of her town; Beth-ezel is taken away from its base, even from its resting-place.

  • 2 Sam 12:21
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    21 Then his servants said to him, Why have you been acting in this way? you were weeping and going without food while the child was still living; but when the child was dead, you got up and had a meal.

  • Matt 24:18
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    18 And let not him who is in the field go back to get his coat.

  • Ezek 2:8
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    8 But you, son of man, give ear to what I say to you, and do not be uncontrolled like that uncontrolled people: let your mouth be open and take what I give you.

  • 2 Sam 12:17
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    17 And the chief men of his house got up and went to his side to make him get up from the earth, but he would not; and he would not take food with them.

  • Isa 47:2
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    2 Take the crushing-stones and get the meal crushed: take off your veil, put away your robe, let your legs be uncovered, go through the rivers.

  • Ezek 27:31
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    31 And they will have the hair of their heads cut off because of you, and will put haircloth on their bodies, weeping for you with bitter grief in their souls, even with bitter sorrow.

  • Jer 13:1
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    1 This is what the Lord said to me: Go and get yourself a linen band and put it round you and do not put it in water.

  • Jer 6:26
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    26 O daughter of my people, put on haircloth, rolling yourself in the dust: give yourself to sorrow, as for an only son, with most bitter cries of grief; for he who makes waste will come on us suddenly.

  • Ezek 28:11
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    11 Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

  • Job 2:13
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    13 And they took their seats on the earth by his side for seven days and seven nights: but no one said a word to him, for they saw that his pain was very great.

  • Jer 22:18
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    18 So this is what the Lord has said about Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah: They will make no weeping for him, saying, Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! they will make no weeping for him, saying, Ah lord! or, Ah his glory!

  • Isa 20:2
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    2 At that time the word of the Lord came to Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saying, Go, and take off your robe, and your shoes from your feet; and he did so, walking unclothed and without shoes on his feet.

  • Job 27:15
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    15 When those of his house who are still living come to their end by disease, they are not put into the earth, and their widows are not weeping for them.

  • Exod 12:11
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    11 And take your meal dressed as if for a journey, with your shoes on your feet and your sticks in your hands: take it quickly: it is the Lord's Passover.

  • Mark 13:16
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    16 And let not him who is in the field go back to take his coat.

  • Matt 6:17
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    17 But when you go without food, put oil on your head and make your face clean;

  • Ezek 7:18
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    18 And they will put haircloth round them, and deep fear will be covering them; and shame will be on all faces, and the hair gone from all their heads.

  • Jer 2:25
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    25 Do not let your foot be without shoes, or your throat dry from need of water: but you said, There is no hope: no, for I have been a lover of strange gods, and after them I will go.

  • Deut 14:1
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    1 You are the children of the Lord your God: you are not to make cuts on your bodies or take off the hair on your brows in honour of the dead;

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    4 By day, before their eyes, take out your vessels like those of one who is taken away: and go out in the evening before their eyes, like those who are taken away as prisoners.

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    6 And before their eyes, take your goods on your back and go out in the dark; go with your face covered: for I have made you a sign to the children of Israel.

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    17 For the Lord said to me, You are not to take food or water there, or go back again by the way you came.

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    4 Hearing this bad news the people were full of grief, and no one put on his ornaments.

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    28 You may not make cuts in your flesh in respect for the dead, or have marks printed on your bodies: I am the Lord.

  • Ezek 12:18
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    18 Son of man, take your food with shaking fear, and your water with trouble and care;

  • Deut 26:14
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    14 No part of these things has been used for food in a time of weeping, or put away when I was unclean, or given for the dead: I have given ear to the voice of the Lord my God, and have done all you have given me orders to do.