¹⁶“Son of man,^w look! I am taking from you what is pleasing to your eyes with a plague,^x but you shall not mourn, and you shall not weep, and your tears shall not run down. ¹⁷Sigh in silence for the dead; you shall not make a mourning ceremony. Bind your turban on you, and you must put your sandals on your feet. You must not cover your upper lip,^y and the bread of mourners^z you shall not eat.” ¹⁸And I spoke to the people in the morning, and my wife died in the evening, and I did in the morning just as^a I was commanded. ¹⁹And the people said to me, “Will you not make known to us what these things that you are doing mean for us?” ²⁰And I said to them that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,^b ²¹“Say to the house of Israel, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Look! I will be profaning my sanctuary, the pride of your strength and the delight of your eyes and the object of your own^c affection; and your sons and your daughters whom you left behind will fall by the sword, ²²and you shall do just as^d I did: You shall not cover your upper lip,^e and you shall not eat the bread of mourners.^f ²³And your turban must be on your heads, and your sandals must be on your feet. You shall not mourn, and you shall not weep, but you shall waste away because of your iniquities, and you shall groan to one another.^g

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Footnotes

wLiterally “to say”
xOr “blow”
yOr “your mustache” (NASB)
zLiterally “men”
aLiterally “as that”
bLiterally “to say”
cOr “souls’,” or “selves’ ”
dLiterally “as that”
eOr “mustache”
fLiterally “men”
gLiterally “a man to his brother”