18 One morning, I was talking with the people as usual, and by sunset my wife was dead. The next day I did what the Lord told me,
19 and when people saw me, they asked, “Why aren't you mourning for your wife?”
20 I answered:The Lord God says
21 he is ready to destroy the temple in which you take such pride and which makes you feel so safe. Your children who now live in Jerusalem will be killed.
22 Then you will do the same things I have done. You will leave your face uncovered and refuse to eat the food that mourners usually eat.
23 You won't take off your turbans and your sandals. You won't cry or mourn, but all day long you will go around groaning because of your sins.
24 I am a warning sign—everything I have done, you will also do. And then you will know the Lord God has made these things happen.