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What does Ezekiel 24:22 mean?
"You will do as I have done. You won’t cover your lips or eat mourner’s bread."
— Ezekiel 24:22 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
The people asked me, “Won’t you tell us what these things are to us, that you do so?”
Then I said to them, “Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
‘Speak to the house of Israel, “Thus says the Lord Yahweh: ‘Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pities; and your sons and your daughters whom you have left behind will fall by the sword.
You will do as I have done. You won’t cover your lips or eat mourner’s bread.
Your turbans will be on your heads, and your shoes on your feet. You won’t mourn or weep; but you will pine away in your iniquities, and moan one toward another.
Thus Ezekiel will be a sign to you; according to all that he has done, you will do. When this comes, then you will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.’”’”
“You, son of man, shouldn’t it be in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that whereupon they set their heart, their sons and their daughters,
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