13. In your filthiness is lewdness: because I have purged you, and you were not purged, you shall not be purged from your filthiness any more, till I have caused my fury to rest upon you.
14. I the LORD have spoken it: it shall come to pass, and I will do it; I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I relent; according to your ways, and according to your doings, shall they judge you, says the Lord GOD.
15. Also the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
16. Son of man, behold, I take away from you the desire of your eyes with a stroke: yet neither shall you mourn nor weep, neither shall your tears run down.
17. Forbear to cry, make no mourning for the dead, bind the turban of your head upon you, and put on your shoes upon your feet, and cover not your lips, and eat not man's bread of sorrow.
18. So I spoke unto the people in the morning: and at evening my wife died; and I did in the morning as I was commanded.
19. And the people said unto me, Will you not tell us what these things are to us, that you so do?
20. Then I answered them, The word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
21. Speak unto the house of Israel,