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,
22. And you shall do as I have done: you shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.
23. And your turban shall be upon your heads, and your shoes upon your feet: you shall not mourn nor weep; but you shall pine away for your iniquities, and mourn one toward another.
24. Thus Ezekiel is unto you a sign: according to all that he has done shall you do: and when this comes, you shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
25. Also, you son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that upon which they set their minds, their sons and their daughters,
26. That he that escapes in that day shall come unto you, to cause you to hear it with your ears?
27. In that day shall your mouth be opened to him who has escaped, and you shall speak, and be no more dumb: and you shall be a sign unto them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.