22. Then you shall do as I have done, not covering your beards nor eating the bread of mourning.
23. Your turbans shall remain on your heads, your sandals on your feet. You shall not mourn or weep, but you shall waste away because of your sins and groan to one another.
24. Ezekiel shall be a sign for you: everything he did, you shall do. When it happens, you shall know that I am the Lord God.
25. As for you, son of man, truly, on the very day I take away from them their strength, their glorious joy, the delight of their eyes, the desire of their soul, the pride of their hearts, their sons and daughters,
26. on that day a survivor will come to you so that you may hear it with your own ears.
27. On that day, with the survivor, your mouth shall be opened; you shall speak and be mute no longer. You shall be a sign to them, and they shall know that I am the Lord.