Ezekiel 24 · Verse 23

Ezekiel 24:23

And your tires shall be upon your heads, and your shoes upon your feet: ye shall not mourn nor weep; but ye shall pine away for your iniquities, and mourn one toward another.
Ezekiel 24:23, King James Version

Ezekiel 24:23 in other translations

BSBYour turbans will remain on your heads and your sandals on your feet. You will not mourn or weep, but you will waste away because of your sins, and you will groan among yourselves.
WEBYour turbans will be on your heads, and your sandals on your feet. You won’t mourn or weep; but you will pine away in your iniquities, and moan one toward another.
ASVAnd your tires shall be upon your heads, and your shoes upon your feet: ye shall not mourn nor weep; but ye shall pine away in your iniquities, and moan one toward another.
YLTAnd your bonnets are on your heads, And your shoes are on your feet, Ye do not mourn nor do ye weep, And ye have wasted away for your iniquities, And ye have howled one unto another.
DARBYand your turbans shall be upon your heads, and your sandals upon your feet: ye shall not mourn nor weep; but ye shall waste away in your iniquities and moan one toward another.
BBEAnd 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.
WebsterAnd your tires shall be upon your heads, and your shoes upon your feet: ye shall not mourn nor weep; but ye shall pine away for your iniquities, and mourn one towards another.

What does Ezekiel 24:23 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
23. ye shall not mourn ... but ... pine away for your iniquities--The Jews' not mourning was to be not the result of insensibility, any more than Ezekiel's not mourning for his wife was not from want of feeling. They could not in their exile manifest publicly their lamentation, but they would privately "mourn one to another." Their "iniquities" would then be their chief sorrow ("pining away"), as feeling that these were the cause of their sufferings (compare Le 26:39; La 3:39). The fullest fulfilment is still future (Zec 12:10-14).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Ezekiel 24:15-27

Though mourning for the dead is a duty, yet it must be kept under by religion and right reason: we must not sorrow as men that have no hope. Believers must not copy the language and expressions of those who know not God. The people asked the meaning of the sign. God takes from them all that was dearest to them. And as Ezekiel wept not for his affliction, so neither should they weep for theirs. Blessed be God, we…

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Ezekiel 24:23 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וּפְאֵרֵכֶ֣םu.fe.'e.re.Khemand turbans yourH6287
עַל\־'al-[will be] onH5921
רָאשֵׁיכֶ֗םra.shei.Khemheads yourH7218
וְנַֽעֲלֵיכֶם֙ve.na.'a.lei.Khemand sandals yourH5275
בְּרַגְלֵיכֶ֔םbe.rag.lei.Khem[will be] on feet yourH7272
לֹ֥אlo'notH3808
תִסְפְּד֖וּtis.pe.Duyou must lamentH5594
וְלֹ֣אve.Lo'and notH3808
תִבְכּ֑וּtiv.Kuyou must weepH1058
וּנְמַקֹּתֶם֙u.ne.ma.ko.Temand you will waste awayH4743
בַּעֲוֹנֹ֣תֵיכֶ֔םba.'a.vo.No.tei.Khemin iniquities yourH5771
וּנְהַמְתֶּ֖םu.ne.ham.Temand you will groanH5098
אִ֥ישׁ'isheachH376
אֶל\־'el-toH413
אָחִֽיו\׃'a.Chivbrother hisH251

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Ezekiel 24:23

  • Ezekiel 4:17

    That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.

  • Leviticus 26:39

    And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.

  • Ezekiel 33:10

    Therefore, O thou son of man, speak unto the house of Israel; Thus ye speak, saying, If our transgressions and our sins be upon us, and we pine away in them, how should we then live?

  • Job 27:15

    Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep.

  • Isaiah 59:11

    We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.

  • Psalms 78:64

    Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
but.
4:17; 33:10; Le 26:39
and mourn.
Isa 59:11

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Ezekiel 24:22

    And ye shall do as I have done: ye shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.

  • Ezekiel 24:23

    And your tires shall be upon your heads, and your shoes upon your feet: ye shall not mourn nor weep; but ye shall pine away for your iniquities, and mourn one toward another.

  • Ezekiel 24:24

    Thus Ezekiel is unto you a sign: according to all that he hath done shall ye do: and when this cometh, ye shall know that I am the Lord God.

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Ezekiel 24:23 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y vuestros bonetes estarán sobre vuestras cabezas, y vuestros zapatos en vuestros pies: no endecharéis ni lloraréis, sino que os consumiréis á causa de vuestras maldades, y gemiréis unos con otros.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		et vos turbans seront sur vos têtes, et vos sandales à vos pieds; vous ne mènerez pas deuil et vous ne pleurerez pas, mais vous vous consumerez dans vos iniquités, et vous gémirez l’un vis-à-vis de l’autre.
German
Elberfelder 1871		und eure Kopfbunde werden auf euren Häuptern sein, und eure Schuhe an euren Füßen; ihr werdet nicht klagen und nicht weinen, sondern werdet hinschwinden in euren Missetaten, und seufzen einer gegen den anderen.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		coronas habebitis in capitibus vestris, et calceamenta in pedibus: non plangetis, neque flebitis, sed tabescetis in iniquitatibus vestris, et unusquisque gemet ad fratrem suum.