Ezekiel 24:22

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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  • Job 27:15 : 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.
  • Ps 78:64 : 64 Their priests were put to death by the sword, and their widows made no weeping for them.
  • 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.
  • Jer 47:3 : 3 At the noise of the stamping of the feet of his war-horses, at the rushing of his carriages and the thunder of his wheels, fathers will give no thought to their children, because their hands are feeble;
  • Ezek 24:16-17 : 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. 17 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.
  • Amos 6:9-9 : 9 Then it will come about that if there are still ten men in a house, death will overtake them. 10 And when a man's relation, even the one who is responsible for burning his body, lifting him up to take his bones out of the house, says to him who is in the inmost part of the house, Is there still anyone with you? and he says, No; then he will say, Keep quiet, for the name of the Lord may not be named.

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    14 I the Lord have said the word and I will do it; I will not go back or have mercy, and my purpose will not be changed; in the measure of your ways and of your evil doings you will be judged, says the Lord.

    15 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

    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.

    17 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.

  • Ezek 24:23-24
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    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.

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  • Lev 26:29
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    29 Then you will take the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters for food;

  • Ezek 16:19
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    19 And my bread which I gave you, the best meal and oil and honey which I gave you for your food, you put it before them for a sweet smell, says the Lord.

  • Ezek 4:8-10
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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.

    10 And you are to take your food by weight, twenty shekels a day: you are to take it at regular times.

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    12 And let your food be barley cakes, cooking it before their eyes with the waste which comes out of a man.

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    26 When I take away your bread of life, ten women will be cooking bread in one oven, and your bread will be measured out by weight; you will have food but never enough.

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    14 You will have food, but not enough; your shame will be ever with you: you will get your goods moved, but you will not take them away safely; and what you do take away I will give to the sword.

  • Ezek 18:16
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  • Ezek 12:17-19
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    17 Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

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

    19 And say to the people of the land, This is what the Lord has said about the people of Jerusalem and the land of Israel: They will take their food with care and their drink with wonder, so that all the wealth of their land may be taken from it because of the violent ways of the people living in it.

  • Ezek 5:10
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    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?

    20 Then I said to them, The word of the Lord came to me, saying,

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    25 Do not take it for food; so that it may be well for you and for your children after you, while you do what is right in the eyes of the Lord.

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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.

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