🔥WEB · Ezekiel 24:16

What does Ezekiel 24:16 mean?

"“Son of man, behold, I will take away from you the desire of your eyes with a stroke: yet you shall neither mourn nor weep, neither shall your tears run down."

— Ezekiel 24:16 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

13

“‘“In your filthiness is lewdness. Because I have cleansed you and you weren’t cleansed, you won’t be cleansed from your filthiness any more, until I have caused my wrath toward you to rest.

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I, Yahweh, have spoken it. It will happen, and I will do it. I won’t go back. I won’t spare. I won’t repent. According to your ways, and according to your doings, they will judge you,” says the Lord Yahweh.’”

15

Also Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

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“Son of man, behold, I will take away from you the desire of your eyes with a stroke: yet you shall neither mourn nor weep, neither shall your tears run down.

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Sigh, but not aloud. Make no mourning for the dead. Bind your headdress on you, and put your shoes on your feet. Don’t cover your lips, and don’t eat mourner’s bread.”

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So I spoke to the people in the morning; and at evening my wife died. So I did in the morning as I was commanded.

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The people asked me, “Won’t you tell us what these things are to us, that you do so?”

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