Ezekiel 24:22 - Easy To Read Version But you will do the same things that I have done \{about my dead wife\}. You won’t cover your mustache \{to show your sadness\}. You won’t eat the food people normally eat when a person dies. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And ye shall do as I have done: ye shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And you shall do as I [Ezekiel] have done; you shall not cover your beard nor eat the bread of mourning [brought to you by others], American Standard Version (1901) And ye shall do as I have done: ye shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men. Common English Bible You will do as I have done. You will neither cover your upper lip nor eat in human company. Catholic Public Domain Version And so, you shall do just as I have done. You shall not cover your faces, and you shall not eat the food of those who mourn. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And you shall do as I have done: you shall not cover your faces nor shall you eat the meat of mourners. |
The priests were killed,\par but the widows did not cry for them.\par
They will hear the sound of running horses,\par the noisy chariots, the rumbling wheels.\par Fathers won’t be able to protect their children.\par They will be too weak to help.\par
to speak to the family of Israel. The Lord my Master said, ‘Look, I will destroy my holy place. You are proud of that place and sing songs of praise about it. You love to see that place. You really love that place. \{But I will destroy that place\} and your children that you left behind will be killed in battle.
You will wear your turbans {\cf2\super [207]} and your shoes. You won’t show your sadness. You won’t cry. But you will be wasting away because of your sins. You will make your sad sounds quietly to each other.
“If a person has a leprosy [179] disease, {then that person must warn other people}. That person must shout, ‘Unclean, unclean!’ That person’s clothes must be torn at the seams. That person must let his hair grow wild. [180] And that person must cover his mouth.