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.
Ye shall not mourn nor weep; but ye shall pine away for your iniquities, and mourn one toward another. The Jews' not mourning was to be, not the result of insensibility, anymore than Ezekiel's not mourning for his wife was not from want of feeling. They could not in their exile manifest publicly their lamentation, but they would privately "mourn one to another." Their "iniquities" would then be their chief sorrow ("pining away"), as feeling that these were the cause Of their sufferings (cf. Leviticus 26:39; Lamentations 3:39). The fullest fulfillment is still future, when they shall not merely mourn for the punishment of their sins, but "shall look on Him whom they have pierced, and mourn for Him" with true repentance (Zechariah 12:10-14).