Ezekiel 24:19
Good News Translation
The people asked me, "Why are you acting like this?"

New Revised Standard Version
Then the people said to me, “Will you not tell us what these things mean for us, that you are acting this way?”

Contemporary English Version
and when people saw me, they asked, "Why aren't you mourning for your wife?"

New American Bible
Then the people asked me, “Will you not tell us what all these things you are doing mean for us?”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the people said to me: Why dost thou not tell us what these things mean that thou doest?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the people said to me: Why dost thou not tell us what these things mean that thou doest?

Ezekiel 12:9 Son of man, hath not the house of Israel, the provoking house, said to thee: What art thou doing?

Ezekiel 17:12 Say to the provoking house: Know you not what these things mean? Tell them: Behold the king of Babylon cometh to Jerusalem: and he shall take away the king and the princes thereof and carry them with him to Babylon.

Ezekiel 20:49 And I said: Ah, ah, ah, O Lord God: they say of me: Doth not this man speak by parables?

Ezekiel 21:7 And when they shall say to thee: Why mournest thou? thou shalt say: For that which I hear: because it cometh, and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be made feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and water shall run down every knee: behold it cometh, and it shall be done, saith the Lord God.

Ezekiel 37:18 And when the children of thy people shall speak to thee, saying: Wilt thou not tell us what thou meanest by this?

Malachi 3:7,8,13 For from the days of your fathers you have departed from my ordinances, and have not kept them: Return to me, and I will return to you, saith the Lord of hosts. And you have said: Wherein shall we return? . . .

Context
Ezekiel's Wife Dies
18So I spoke to the people in the morning, and my wife died in the evening: and I did in the morning as he had commanded me. 19And the people said to me: Why dost thou not tell us what these things mean that thou doest?20And I said to them: The word of the Lord came to me, saying:…
Cross References
Ezekiel 12:9
Son of man, hath not the house of Israel, the provoking house, said to thee: What art thou doing?

Ezekiel 17:12
Say to the provoking house: Know you not what these things mean? Tell them: Behold the king of Babylon cometh to Jerusalem: and he shall take away the king and the princes thereof and carry them with him to Babylon.

Ezekiel 24:18
So I spoke to the people in the morning, and my wife died in the evening: and I did in the morning as he had commanded me.

Ezekiel 24:20
And I said to them: The word of the Lord came to me, saying:

Ezekiel 37:18
And when the children of thy people shall speak to thee, saying: Wilt thou not tell us what thou meanest by this?

Ezekiel 24:18
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