Ezekiel 24:22
Then you will do as I have done: You will not cover your lip or eat food brought by others.
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- Job 27:15 : 15 Those who survive him are buried by the plague, and their widows do not mourn for them.
- Ps 78:64 : 64 Their priests fell by the sword, but their widows did not weep.
- Jer 16:4-7 : 4 They will die of deadly diseases. No one will mourn for them. They will not be buried. Their dead bodies will lie like manure spread on the ground. They will be killed in war or die of starvation. Their corpses will be food for the birds and wild animals. 5 “Moreover I, the LORD, tell you:‘Do not go into a house where they are having a funeral meal. Do not go there to mourn and express your sorrow for them. For I have stopped showing them my good favor, my love, and my compassion. I, the LORD, so affirm it! 6 Rich and poor alike will die in this land. They will not be buried or mourned. People will not cut their bodies or shave off their hair to show their grief for them. 7 No one will take any food to those who mourn for the dead to comfort them. No one will give them any wine to drink to console them for the loss of their father or mother.
- Jer 47:3 : 3 Fathers will hear the hoofbeats of the enemies’ horses, the clatter of their chariots and the rumbling of their wheels. They will not turn back to save their children because they will be paralyzed with fear.
- Ezek 24:16-17 : 16 “Son of man, realize that I am about to take the delight of your eyes away from you with a jolt, but you must not mourn or weep or shed tears. 17 Groan to moan for the dead, but do not perform mourning rites. Bind on your turban and put your sandals on your feet. Do not cover your lip and do not eat food brought by others.”
- Amos 6:9-9 : 9 If ten men are left in one house, they too will die. 10 When their close relatives, the ones who will burn the corpses, pick up their bodies to remove the bones from the house, they will say to anyone who is in the inner rooms of the house,“Is anyone else with you?” He will respond,“No one.” Then he will say,“Hush! Don’t invoke the LORD’s name!”
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- Ezek 24:14-174 verses82%
14“‘I the LORD have spoken; judgment is coming and I will act! I will not relent, or show pity, or be sorry! I will judge you according to your conduct and your deeds, declares the Sovereign LORD.’”
15Ezekiel’s Wife Dies The LORD’s message came to me:
16“Son of man, realize that I am about to take the delight of your eyes away from you with a jolt, but you must not mourn or weep or shed tears.
17Groan to moan for the dead, but do not perform mourning rites. Bind on your turban and put your sandals on your feet. Do not cover your lip and do not eat food brought by others.”
- Ezek 24:23-242 verses78%
23Your turbans will be on your heads and your sandals on your feet; you will not mourn or weep, but you will rot for your iniquities and groan among yourselves.
24Ezekiel will be an object lesson for you; you will do all that he has done. When it happens, then you will know that I am the Sovereign LORD.’
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19You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and scraps of bread. You have put to death people who should not die and kept alive those who should not live by your lies to my people, who listen to lies!
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8As for you, son of man, listen to what I am saying to you: Do not rebel like that rebellious house! Open your mouth and eat what I am giving you.”
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29You will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters.
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19As for my food that I gave you– the fine flour, olive oil, and honey I fed you– you placed it before them as a soothing aroma. That is exactly what happened, declares the Sovereign LORD.
- Ezek 4:8-103 verses72%
8Look here, I will tie you up with ropes, so you cannot turn from one side to the other until you complete the days of your siege.
9“As for you, take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt, put them in a single container, and make food from them for yourself. For the same number of days that you lie on your side– 390 days– you will eat it.
10The food you eat will be eight ounces a day by weight; you must eat it at fixed times.
- Ezek 4:12-132 verses72%
12And you must eat the food like you would a barley cake. You must bake it in front of them over a fire made with dried human excrement.”
13And the LORD said,“This is how the people of Israel will eat their unclean food among the nations where I will banish them.”
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26When I break off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven; they will ration your bread by weight, and you will eat and not be satisfied.
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14You will eat, but not be satisfied. Even if you have the strength to overtake some prey, you will not be able to carry it away; if you do happen to carry away something, I will deliver it over to the sword.
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16does not oppress anyone or keep what has been given in pledge, does not commit robbery, gives his food to the hungry, and clothes the naked,
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13So this is what the Sovereign LORD says:“Look, my servants will eat, but you will be hungry! Look, my servants will drink, but you will be thirsty! Look, my servants will rejoice, but you will be humiliated!
- Ezek 12:17-193 verses71%
17The LORD’s message came to me:
18“Son of man, eat your bread with trembling, and drink your water with anxious shaking.
19Then say to the people of the land,‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says about the inhabitants of Jerusalem and of the land of Israel: They will eat their bread with anxiety and drink their water in fright, for their land will be stripped bare of all it contains because of the violence of all who live in it.
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10Therefore fathers will eat their sons within you, Jerusalem, and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments on you, and I will scatter any survivors to the winds.
- Ezek 24:19-213 verses71%
19Then the people said to me,“Will you not tell us what these things you are doing mean for us?”
20So I said to them:“The LORD’s message came to me:
21Say to the house of Israel,‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Realize I am about to desecrate my sanctuary– the source of your confident pride, the object in which your eyes delight, and your life’s passion. Your very own sons and daughters whom you have left behind will die by the sword.
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25You must not eat it so that it may go well with you and your children after you; you will be doing what is right in the LORD’s sight.
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17For an order came to me in the LORD’s message,‘Eat no food. Drink no water there. And do not return by the way you came.’”
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7I want you to share your food with the hungry and to provide shelter for homeless, oppressed people. When you see someone naked, clothe him! Don’t turn your back on your own flesh and blood!
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23They will console you when you see their behavior and their deeds, because you will know that it was not without reason that I have done everything which I have done in it, declares the Sovereign LORD.”
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14therefore you will no longer devour people and no longer bereave your nation of children, declares the Sovereign LORD.
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4He said to me,“Son of man, go to the house of Israel and speak my words to them.
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22You went back. You ate food. And you drank water in the place of which he had said to you,“Eat no food. Drink no water.” Therefore your corpse will not be buried in your ancestral tomb.’”
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38You will perish among the nations; the land of your enemies will consume you.
- Ezek 4:15-173 verses70%
15So he said to me,“All right then, I will substitute cow’s manure instead of human excrement. You will cook your food over it.”
16Then he said to me,“Son of man, I am about to remove the bread supply in Jerusalem. They will eat their bread ration anxiously, and they will drink their water ration in terror
17because they will lack bread and water. Each one will be terrified, and they will rot for their iniquity.
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11This is how you are to eat it– dressed to travel, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. You are to eat it in haste. It is the LORD’s Passover.
- Ezek 3:25-262 verses70%
25As for you, son of man, they will put ropes on you and tie you up with them, so you cannot go out among them.
26I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth so that you will be silent and unable to reprove them, for they are a rebellious house.
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20You will not eat anything made with yeast; in all the places where you live you must eat bread made without yeast.’”
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9For this is how I was commanded in the LORD’s message,‘Eat no food. Drink no water. And do not return by the way you came.’”
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34You will drain it dry, gnaw its pieces, and tear out your breasts, for I have spoken, declares the Sovereign LORD.
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1He said to me,“Son of man, eat what you see in front of you– eat this scroll– and then go and speak to the house of Israel.”
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6Do not eat the food of a stingy person, do not crave his delicacies;
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14I have not eaten anything when I was in mourning, or removed any of it while ceremonially unclean, or offered any of it to the dead; I have obeyed you and have done everything you have commanded me.
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30You are to set the Bread of the Presence on the table before me continually.
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12Then you will know that I am the LORD, whose statutes you have not followed and whose regulations you have not carried out. Instead you have behaved according to the regulations of the nations around you!’”
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6“And you, son of man, groan with an aching heart and bitterness; groan before their eyes.
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3You eat the fat, you clothe yourselves with the wool, you slaughter the choice animals, but you do not feed the sheep!