Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
And you will do as I have done, not covering your lips or taking the food of those in grief.
New American Standard Bible
You will do as I have done; you will not cover your mustache and you will not eat the bread of men.
King James Version
And ye shall do as I have done: ye shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.
Holman Bible
Then you will do just as I have done: You will not cover your mustache or eat the bread of mourners.
International Standard Version
That's why you will soon be doing what I've just done. You are not to cover your mouth or eat what your comforters bring to you.
A Conservative Version
And ye shall do as I have done. Ye shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.
American Standard Version
And ye shall do as I have done: ye shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.
Amplified
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.
Darby Translation
And ye shall do as I have done: ye shall not cover the beard, neither eat the bread of men;
Julia Smith Translation
And ye did as I did: ye shall not cover over your mustachios, and the bread of men ye shall not eat
King James 2000
And you shall do as I have done: you shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.
Lexham Expanded Bible
and you shall do {just as} I did: You shall not cover your [upper] lip, and you shall not eat [the] bread of {mourners}.
Modern King James verseion
And you shall do as I have done. You shall not cover your lips nor eat the bread of men.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Like as I have done, so shall ye do also: Ye shall not hide your faces, ye shall eat no mourner's bread;
NET Bible
Then you will do as I have done: You will not cover your lip or eat food brought by others.
New Heart English Bible
You shall do as I have done: you shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.
The Emphasized Bible
Then shall ye do, as I have done. - The heard, shall ye not cover, And the bread of other men:, shall ye not eat;
Webster
And ye shall do as I have done: ye shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.
World English Bible
You shall do as I have done: you shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.
Youngs Literal Translation
And ye have done as I have done, On the upper lip ye are not covered, And bread of men ye do not eat.
Themes
Bread » Served round after funerals
Ezekiel » Teaches by pantomime » Does not show mourning upon the death of his wife
Interlinear
`atah
Word Count of 20 Translations in Ezekiel 24:22
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Boiling Pot And The Death Of Ezekiel's Wife
21 Say to the people of Israel, The Lord has said, See, I will make my holy place unclean, the pride of your strength, the pleasure of your eyes, and the desire of your soul; and your sons and daughters, who did not come with you here, will be put to the sword. 22 And you will do as I have done, not covering your lips or taking the food of those in grief. 23 And your head-dresses will be on your heads and your shoes on your feet: there will be no sorrow or weeping; but you will be wasting away in the punishment of your evil-doing, and you will be looking at one another in wonder.
Phrases
Cross References
Job 27:15
When those of his house who are still living come to their end by disease, they are not put into the earth, and their widows are not weeping for them.
Psalm 78:64
Their priests were put to death by the sword, and their widows made no weeping for them.
Jeremiah 16:4-7
Death from evil diseases will overtake them; there will be no weeping for them and their bodies will not be put to rest; they will be like waste on the face of the earth: the sword and need of food will put an end to them; their dead bodies will be meat for the birds of heaven and for the beasts of the earth.
Jeremiah 47:3
At the noise of the stamping of the feet of his war-horses, at the rushing of his carriages and the thunder of his wheels, fathers will give no thought to their children, because their hands are feeble;
Ezekiel 24:16-17
Son of man, see, I am taking away the desire of your eyes by disease: but let there be no sorrow or weeping or drops running from your eyes.
Amos 6:9-10
Then it will come about that if there are still ten men in a house, death will overtake them.