Ezekiel 24:16-18

Common English Bible

¹⁶ Human one, I am about to take the delight of your eyes away from you in a single stroke. Don’t mourn or weep. Don’t even let your tears well up. ¹⁷ Sigh inwardly; be deathly still. Don’t perform mourning rites, but bind on your turban and put your shoes on your feet. And don’t cover your upper lip or eat in human company.

¹⁸ I spoke with the people in the morning, and by evening my wife was dead. The next morning I did as I was commanded.