Ezekiel 24:22
You will do as I [Ezekiel] have done; you shall not cover your mustache nor eat the bread of [mourning brought to you by other] men.
Job 27:15
“Those who survive him will be buried because of the plague,
And [their] widows will not be able to weep.
Psalm 78:64
His priests [Hophni and Phinehas] fell by the sword,
And His widows could not weep.
Jeremiah 16:4-7
“They will die of deadly diseases. They will not be mourned or buried; they will be like dung on the surface of the ground and come to an end by sword and famine, and their dead bodies will be food for the birds of the air and for the beasts of the earth.”
Jeremiah 47:3
“Because of the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of the war-horses [of the Babylonian king],
The rattling of his chariots, and the rumbling of his wheels,
The fathers have not looked and turned back for their children,
So weak are their hands [with terror]
Ezekiel 24:16-17
“Son of man, listen carefully, I am about to take away from you the desire of your eyes [your wife] with a single stroke. Yet you shall not mourn and you shall not weep, and your tears shall not flow.
Amos 6:9-10
And it shall come to pass that if there remain ten men in one house, they shall die [by the pestilence that comes with war].
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“Those who survive him will be buried because of the plague,
And [their] widows will not be able to weep.
His priests [Hophni and Phinehas] fell by the sword,
And His widows could not weep.
“Because of the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of the war-horses [of the Babylonian king],
The rattling of his chariots, and the rumbling of his wheels,
The fathers have not looked and turned back for their children,
So weak are their hands [with terror]