Ezekiel 24:22
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Then you will do as I have done: You will not cover your lips or eat the bread of mourners.”
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“Then you will do as I have done: You will not cover your lips or eat the bread of mourners.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And ye shall do as I have done: ye shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.”
King James Version · Public Domain“And ye shall do as I have done: ye shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And ye have done as I have done, On the upper lip ye are not covered, And bread of men ye do not eat.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Ezekiel 24:22 — 6 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 27:15His survivors will be buried by the plague, and their widows will not weep for them.
- Psalms 78:64His priests fell by the sword, but their widows could not lament.
- Jeremiah 16:4“They will die from deadly diseases. They will not be mourned or buried, but will lie like dung on the ground. They will be finished off by sword and famine, and their corpses will become food for the birds of the air and beasts of the earth.”
- Jeremiah 47:3at the sound of the galloping hooves of stallions, the rumbling of chariots, and the clatter of their wheels. The fathers will not turn back for their sons; their hands will hang limp.
- Ezekiel 24:16“Son of man, behold, I am about to take away the desire of your eyes with a fatal blow. But you must not mourn or weep or let your tears flow.
- Amos 6:9And if there are ten men left in one house, they too will die.
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).