Ezekiel 24:18-20

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

¹⁸ So I spoke to the people in the morning, and at evening my wife died. And on the next morning I did as I was commanded.

¹⁹ Then the people said to me, ‘Will you not tell us what these things mean for us, that you are acting in this way?’ ²⁰ Then I said to them: The word of the Lord came to me: