“And do not enter a house where there is feasting and sit down to eat and drink.(A) For this is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Before your eyes and in your days I will bring an end to the sounds(B) of joy and gladness and to the voices of bride(C) and bridegroom in this place.(D)

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Don’t go to a banquet to sit with people[a] to eat and drink.” For this is what the Lord of the Heavenly Armies, the God of Israel, says: “In this place I’m about to bring an end to the sounds of happiness and rejoicing, the sounds of the bridegroom and the bride. I’ll do it in front of your eyes and in your time.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 16:8 Lit. with them

Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting, to sit with them to eat and to drink.

For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place in your eyes, and in your days, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride.

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