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For thus says Yahweh, “Do not enter the house of the (A)funeral meal, or go to lament or to console them; for I have (B)withdrawn My peace from this people,” declares Yahweh, “My (C)lovingkindness and compassion. Both (D)great men and small will die in this land; they will not be buried; they will not be lamented, nor will anyone (E)gash himself or (F)shave his head for them. Men will not (G)break bread in mourning for them, to comfort anyone for the dead, nor give them a cup of comforting to drink for anyone’s father or mother.

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For thus says Yahweh, “You must not enter the house of the funeral meal, and you must not go to lament, and you must not show sympathy for them, for I have taken away my peace from this people,” declares[a] Yahweh, “the loyal love and the compassion. Both the great and small will die in this land. They will not be buried, and they will not mourn for them, and no one will cut himself with a blade, and no one will shave himself for them. And they will not break bread for the mourning ceremony for them, to comfort him because of the dead. And they will not give drink to them, the cup of desolation, for their fathers,[b] or for their mothers.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 16:5 Literally “a declaration of”
  2. Jeremiah 16:7 Hebrew “father”
  3. Jeremiah 16:7 Hebrew “mother”