“Here I [Jehovah] am taking away from you the thing desirable to your eyes by a blow, and you should not beat your breast, neither should you weep nor should your tears come on.

The one desirable to the eyes of Ezekiel proved to be his own wife, who died less than twenty-four hours later. In obedience to Jehovah’s command, thirty-four-year-old Ezekiel exercised self-control over his natural human emotions.