Ezekiel 24:16-19

16“Son of man, listen carefully, I am about to take away from you the desire of your eyes [your wife] with a single stroke. Yet you shall not mourn and you shall not weep, and your tears shall not flow.

17Sigh and groan in silence; do not mourn for the dead. Bind on your turban and put your sandals on your feet, and do not cover your mustache or eat the bread of [mourners furnished by other] men.”

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

19The people said to me, “These things that you are doing—tell us, what do they mean for us?”