Ezekiel 24:23
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Your turbans will remain on your heads and your sandals on your feet. You will not mourn or weep, but you will waste away because of your sins, and you will groan among yourselves.”
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“Your turbans will remain on your heads and your sandals on your feet. You will not mourn or weep, but you will waste away because of your sins, and you will groan among yourselves.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And your tires shall be upon your heads, and your shoes upon your feet: ye shall not mourn nor weep; but ye shall pine away for your iniquities, and mourn one toward another.”
King James Version · Public Domain“And your tires shall be upon your heads, and your shoes upon your feet: ye shall not mourn nor weep; but ye shall pine away in your iniquities, and moan one toward another.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And your bonnets <FI>are<Fi> on your heads, And your shoes <FI>are<Fi> on your feet, Ye do not mourn nor do ye weep, And ye have wasted away for your iniquities, And ye have howled one unto another.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Ezekiel 24:23 — 6 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Leviticus 26:39Those of you who survive in the lands of your enemies will waste away in their iniquity and will decay in the sins of their fathers.
- 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.
- Isaiah 59:11We all growl like bears and moan like doves. We hope for justice, but find none, for salvation, but it is far from us.
- Ezekiel 4:17So they will lack food and water; they will be appalled at the sight of one another wasting away in their iniquity.
- Ezekiel 33:10Now as for you, son of man, tell the house of Israel that this is what they have said: ‘Our transgressions and our sins are heavy upon us, and we are wasting away because of them! How can we live?’
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