Ezekiel 12:6-8

Expanded Bible

⁶ Lift them onto your shoulders with the people watching, and carry them out in the dark. Cover your face so you cannot see the ·ground [or land], because I have made you a sign to the ·people [^Lhouse] of Israel.”

⁷ I did these things as I was commanded. In the daytime I brought what I had packed as ·if I were being taken away captive [bags of exile]. Then in the evening I dug through the wall with my hands. I brought my things out in the dark and carried them on my shoulders as the people watched.

⁸ Then in the morning the ·Lord spoke his word [^Lword of the Lord came] to me, saying: