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22 Then you will do as I have done: You will not cover your lip or eat food brought by others.[a] 23 Your turbans will be on your heads and your sandals on your feet; you will not mourn or weep, but you will rot[b] for your iniquities[c] and groan among yourselves. 24 Ezekiel will be an object lesson for you; you will do all that he has done. When it happens, then you will know that I am the Sovereign Lord.’

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 24:22 tn See v. 17.
  2. Ezekiel 24:23 tn The same verb appears in 4:17 and 33:10.
  3. Ezekiel 24:23 tn Or “in your punishment.” The phrase “in/for [a person’s] iniquity/punishment” occurs fourteen times in Ezekiel: here; 3:18, 19; 4:17; 7:13, 16; 18:17, 18, 19, 20; 33:6, 8, 9; 39:23. The Hebrew word for “iniquity” may also mean the “punishment” for iniquity or “guilt” of iniquity.