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.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
tires	וּפְאֵרֵכֶ֣ם u.fe.'e.re.Khem	H6287	an embellishment · conjunction + noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine plural
heads	רָאשֵׁיכֶ֗ם ra.shei.Khem	H7218	the head (as most easily shaken) · noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine plural
shoes	וְנַֽעֲלֵיכֶם֙ ve.na.'a.lei.Khem	H5275	properly · conjunction + noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine plural
feet	בְּרַגְלֵיכֶ֔ם be.rag.lei.Khem	H7272	a foot (as used in walking) · preposition + noun, common feminine dual construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine plural
mourn	תִסְפְּד֖וּ tis.pe.Du	H5594	properly · verb, qal imperfect, 2nd person masculine plural
weep	תִבְכּ֑וּ tiv.Ku	H1058	to weep · verb, qal imperfect, 2nd person masculine plural
away	וּנְמַקֹּתֶם֙ u.ne.ma.ko.Tem	H4743	to melt · conjunction + verb, niphal sequential perfect, 2nd person masculine plural
iniquities	בַּעֲוֹנֹ֣תֵיכֶ֔ם ba.'a.vo.No.tei.Khem	H5771	perversity · preposition + noun, common feminine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine plural
mourn	וּנְהַמְתֶּ֖ם u.ne.ham.Tem	H5098	to growl · conjunction + verb, qal sequential perfect, 2nd person masculine plural
one	אִ֥ישׁ 'ish	H376	a man as an individual or a male person · noun, common masculine singular absolute
another	אָחִֽיו 'a.Chiv	H251	a brother (used in the widest sense of literal relation… · noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

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 th…
Ezekiel 4:17 That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.
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 p…
Job 27:15 Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep.
Psalms 78:64 Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.
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.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 24:15–end

These verses conclude what we have been upon all along from the beginning of this book, to wit, Ezekiel's prophecies of the destruction of Jerusalem; for after this, though he prophesied much concerning other nations, he said no more concerning Jerusalem, till he heard of the destruction of it, almost three years after, Eze 33:21. He had assured them, in the former part of this chapter, that there was no hope at all of the preventing of the trouble; here he assures them that they should not have the ease of weeping for it. Observe here, I. The sign by which this was represented to them, and it was a sign that cost the prophet very dear; the more shame for them that when he, by a divine appoi…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ezekiel 24:23

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 Lev 26:39; Lam 3:39). The fullest fulfilment is still future (Zac 12:10-14).

Adam Clarke on Ezekiel 24:19

Wilt thou not tell us - In the following verses he explains and applies the whole of what he had done and said.

John Gill on Ezekiel 24:23

And your tires shall be upon your heads, and your shoes upon your feet..... As will be necessary while travelling, and when carrying captive to a foreign country, as now will be their case: ye shall not mourn nor weep; shall not dare to do it, because of their enemies; and, moreover, so great should be their miseries and calamities, that they should be struck dumb, and quite astonished and stupefied with them; that they should not be able to vent their sorrow by an outward act of mourning: but ye shall pine away for your iniquities; without any true sense of them, or godly sorrow for them, but in wretched hardness of heart, and black despair: and mourn one towards another; not to God, con…

Dictionary and topics

Bonnet — (Heb. peer), Ex. 39:28 (R.V., “head-tires”); Ezek. 44:18 (R.V., “tires”), denotes properly a turban worn by priests, and in Isa. 3:20 (R.V., “head-tires”) a head-dress or tiara worn by females. The…
Headdress — The Hebrews do not appear to have regarded a covering for the head as an essential article of dress. Hats were unknown. The earliest notice we have of such a thing is in connection with the…
Tire — an old English word for headdress. It was an ornamental headdress worn on festive occasions, (Ezekiel 24:17,23) and perhaps, as some suppose, also an ornament for the neck worn by both women, (Isaiah…
Dress · Bonnets (R. V., head-tires), worn by women — Bonnets (R. V., head-tires), worn by women
Instruction · Widowhoo — Widowhoo
Judgments · Different kinds of: Continued sorrows — Different kinds of: Continued sorrows
Prophets · Frequently in their actions, &c were made signs to the people — Frequently in their actions, &c were made signs to the people
Shoes · The Jews: Never wore, in mourning — The Jews: Never wore, in mourning

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Ezekiel 24:23

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 24:15–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ezekiel 24:23

Adam Clarke on Ezekiel 24:19

John Gill on Ezekiel 24:23

Dictionary and topics

Ezekiel 24:23

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 24:15–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ezekiel 24:23

Adam Clarke on Ezekiel 24:19

John Gill on Ezekiel 24:23

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on Ezekiel 24:15-24

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Ezekiel 24:20-24

Rashi on Ezekiel 24:23