Ezekiel 24:17
Groan quietly; do not mourn for the dead. Put on your turban and strap your sandals on your feet; do not cover your lips or eat the bread of mourners.”
Forbear to cry, make no mourning for the dead, bind the tire of thine head upon thee, and put on thy shoes upon thy feet, and cover not thy lips, and eat not the bread of men.
Note Forbear: Heb. Be silent
Note lips: Heb. upper lip
Sigh, but not aloud. Make no mourning for the dead. Bind your headdress on you, and put your sandals on your feet. Don’t cover your lips, and don’t eat mourner’s bread.”
Sigh, but not aloud, make no mourning for the dead; bind thy headtire upon thee, and put thy shoes upon thy feet, and cover not thy lips, and eat not the bread of men.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- Forbear to cry
- Heb. Be silent.
- Psalm 37:7; Psalm 39:9; Psalm 46:10; Amos 8:3; Habakkuk 2:20
- make
- Jeremiah 16:4–7
- bind
- Ezekiel 24:23; Leviticus 10:6; Leviticus 21:10
- put
- 2 Samuel 15:30
- cover
- Ezekiel 24:22; Leviticus 13:45; Micah 3:7
- lips
- Heb. upper lip, and so ver.
- Ezekiel 24:22
- eat
- Hosea 9:4
- Ezekiel 24:17
- the bread of men.{Lechem anoshim,} not "the bread of mourners," as some render, but "the bread of other men," i.e., such as was commonly sent to mourners on such occasions by their friends.
- Jeremiah 16:7