Ezekiel 24:18-20

New Catholic Bible

¹⁸ Therefore, I spoke to the people in the morning; in the evening my wife died. And on the following morning I did as I had been commanded. ¹⁹ Thereupon, the people said to me, “Will you not explain to us what all these things you are doing mean for us?”

²⁰ Then I said to them: This is what the Lord God said to me,