²² And you shall do as I have done; ^(A)you shall not cover your ^[a]lips nor eat man’s bread of sorrow.

⁹ Then it shall come to pass, that if ten men remain in one house, they shall die. ¹⁰ And when ^[a]a relative of the dead, with one who will burn the bodies, picks up the ^[b]bodies to take them out of the house, he will say to one inside the house, “Are there any more with you?”

Then someone will say, “None.”

And he will say, ^(A)“Hold your tongue! ^(B)For we dare not mention the name of the Lord.”

¹⁶ “Son of man, behold, I take away from you the desire of your eyes with one stroke; yet you shall ^(A)neither mourn nor weep, nor shall your tears run down. ¹⁷ Sigh in silence, ^(B)make no mourning for the dead; ^(C)bind your turban on your head, and ^(D)put your sandals on your feet; ^(E)do not cover your ^[a]lips, and do not eat man’s bread of sorrow.”

⁴ “They shall die ^(A)gruesome deaths; they shall not be ^(B)lamented nor shall they be ^(C)buried, but they shall be ^(D)like refuse on the face of the earth. They shall be consumed by the sword and by famine, and their ^(E)corpses shall be meat for the birds of heaven and for the beasts of the earth.”

⁵ For thus says the Lord: ^(F)“Do not enter the house of mourning, nor go to lament or bemoan them; for I have taken away My peace from this people,” says the Lord, “lovingkindness and mercies. ⁶ Both the great and the small shall die in this land. They shall not be buried; ^(G)neither shall men lament for them, ^(H)cut themselves, nor ^(I)make themselves bald for them. ⁷ Nor shall men break bread in mourning for them, to comfort them for the dead; nor shall men give them the cup of consolation to ^(J)drink for their father or their mother.