Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 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.

23. pine away for ] in your iniquities; Eze 33:10; Lev 26:39.

mourn one towards] moan. The unparalleled severity of the stroke will paralyse grief and prevent it expressing itself.

Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

See Eze 24:16,17.

Ye shall pine away; you shall languish with grief and secret sorrow, when you shall not dare to show it openly, lest you irritate your tyrannical masters, who will expect that nothing grieve you that rejoiceth them.

For your iniquities; the punishment of your iniquities, which have made your land, city, temple, and families desolate and miserable.

And mourn one toward another; in secret, Jew with Jew, you shall bewail what you durst not openly.

Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole

23. ye shall not mourn . . . but . .. pine away for your iniquitiesThe Jews’ not mourning was tobe not the result of insensibility, any more than Ezekiel’s notmourning for his wife was not from want of feeling. They could not intheir exile manifest publicly their lamentation, but they wouldprivately “mourn one to another.” Their “iniquities”would then be their chief sorrow (“pining away”), asfeeling that these were the cause of their sufferings (compareLev 26:39; Lam 3:39).The fullest fulfilment is still future (Zec12:10-14).

Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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, confessing their sins, being contrite and penitent; but to one another, fretting, murmuring, and complaining at the hand of God upon them: this seems to denote the private way of mourning they should use for fear of the enemy, when they could get together by themselves, as well as their disregard to God, against whom they had sinned.

Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible

(23) Ye shall pine away.In the tumult, distress, and captivity of the approaching judgment there would be no opportunity for the outward display of grief; but all the more should it press upon them inwardly, and, according to the terrible threatening of Lev. 26:39, they should pine away in their iniquity in their enemies land. In the original the preposition is the same here as in Leviticus, in your iniquity.

Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)

23. Ye shall not mourn nor weep Does this mean that the people shall be stunned and speechless over the destruction of Jerusalem as was Ezekiel over the loss of his wife, or that they are forbidden to complain at this blow which comes from God?

Mourn Rather, moan.

Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments