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# set your face against the daughters
This is a command to stare at the women as a symbol of punishing them. Translate "set your face against" as you did in [Ezekiel 4:3](../04/03.md). Alternate translation: "stare angrily at the daughters" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-symaction]])
# set your face against
Here "face" is a metonym for attention or gaze, and "set your face" represents staring. Alternate translation: "stare at" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy]])
# daughters of your people
This idiom refers to women who belong to the same people group as Ezekiel does. Alternate translation: "women of Israel" or "your countrywomen" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-idiom]])
# prophesy out of their own minds
"prophesying only the things that they think in their own minds." See how you translated a similar phrase in [Ezekiel 13:2](../13/02.md).
# prophesy against
"prophesy about the bad things that will happen to them." See how you translated this in [Ezekiel 4:7](../04/07.md).