Ezekiel 24:23

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Lev 26:39 : 39 And those of you who are still living will be wasting away in their sins in the land of your haters; in the sins of their fathers they will be wasting away.
  • Ezek 4:17 : 17 So that they may be in need of bread and water and be wondering at one another, wasting away in their sin.
  • Ezek 33:10 : 10 And you, son of man, say to the children of Israel, You say, Our wrongdoing and our sins are on us and we are wasting away in them; how then may we have life?
  • 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.
  • Isa 59:11 : 11 We make noises of grief, like bears, and sad sounds like doves: we are looking for our right, but it is not there; for salvation, but it is far from us.

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