Ezequiel 24:23

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E tereis na cabea os vossos turbantes e os vossos sapatos, nos ps; no lamentareis, nem chorareis, mas definhar-vos-eis nas vossas maldades e gemereis uns com os outros.

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A Biblia Sagrada
E tereis nas cabeas os vossos turbantes, e os vossos sapatos nos ps; no lamentareis, nem chorareis, mas definhar-vos-eis nas vossas maldades, e gemereis uns com os outros.

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Trareis cabea os vossos turbantes e as vossas sandlias, nos ps; no lamentareis, nem chorareis, mas definhar-vos-eis nas vossas iniqidades e gemereis uns com os outros.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

but: Ezekiel 4:17, Ezekiel 33:10, Leviticus 26:39

and mourn: Isaiah 59:11

Reciprocal: Exodus 33:4 - and no 2 Samuel 15:30 - barefoot Psalms 78:64 - widows Isaiah 20:2 - put Isaiah 30:20 - the bread Lamentations 4:9 - for Ezekiel 24:17 - bind

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And your tires shall be upon your heads, and your shoes upon your feet..... As will be necessary while travelling, and when carrying captive to a foreign country, as now will be their case:

ye shall not mourn nor weep; shall not dare to do it, because of their enemies; and, moreover, so great should be their miseries and calamities, that they should be struck dumb, and quite astonished and stupefied with them; that they should not be able to vent their sorrow by an outward act of mourning:

but ye shall pine away for your iniquities; without any true sense of them, or godly sorrow for them, but in wretched hardness of heart, and black despair:

and mourn one towards another; not to God, confessing their sins, being contrite and penitent; but to one another, fretting, murmuring, and complaining at the hand of God upon them: this seems to denote the private way of mourning they should use for fear of the enemy, when they could get together by themselves, as well as their disregard to God, against whom they had sinned.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The death of Ezekiel’s wife took place in the evening of the same day that he delivered the foregoing prophecy. This event was to signify to the people that the Lord would take from them all that was most dear to them; and - owing to the extraordinary nature of the times - quiet lamentation for the dead, according to the usual forms of mourning, would be impossible.

Ezekiel 24:17

The priest in general was to mourn for his dead (Leviticus 21:1 ff); but Ezekiel was to be an exception to the rule. The “tire” was the priest’s mitre.

Eat not the bread of men - Food supplied for the comfort of the mourners.

Ezekiel 24:23

Pine away - Compare Leviticus 26:39. The outward signs of grief were a certain consolation. Their absence would indicate a heart-consuming sorrow.

Ezekiel 24:27

Ezekiel had been employed four years in foretelling the calamities about to come to pass. He had been utterly disregarded by the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and received with apparent respect but with real incredulity by those in exile. Now until the city had been actually taken, the voice of prophecy should cease, so far as God’s people were concerned. Hence the intervening series of predictions relating to neighboring and foreign nations Ezek. 25–32. After which the prophet’s voice was again heard addressing his countrymen in their exile. This accounts for the apparently parenthetical character of the next eight chapters.