23. You won't take off your turbans and your sandals. You won't cry or mourn, but all day long you will go around groaning because of your sins.
24. I am a warning sign—everything I have done, you will also do. And then you will know the Lord God has made these things happen.
25. The Lord said, “Ezekiel, I will soon destroy the temple that makes everyone feel proud and safe, and I will take away their children as well.
26. On that same day, someone will escape from the city and come to tell you what has happened.
27. Then you will be able to speak again, and the two of you will talk. You will be a warning sign to the people, and they will know that I am the Lord.”