Ezekiel 24:15-27

See how the Lord is pleased to deal with his faithful servants! Here is a Prophet of the Lord bereaved of one that was near and dear to him; yea, the Lord himself calls her the desire of Ezekiel's eyes: a plain proof of his great affection for her. But yet he is not permitted to drop a tear, or to manifest the least token of grief. And all this that both by preaching and by type he might show forth the Lord's displeasure for the sins of his people. And what an awful judgment must it have been, when Jerusalem was thus taken and destroyed by the Chaldean army, and when such were the miseries of individuals, that none had power, or privilege, or even opportunity, to weep over one another!