⁵ “Moreover I, the Lord, tell you:^[a] ‘Do not go into a house where they are having a funeral meal. Do not go there to mourn and express your sorrow for them. For I have stopped showing them my good favor,^[b] my love, and my compassion. I, the Lord, so affirm it!^{[c] 6} Rich and poor alike will die in this land. They will not be buried or mourned. People will not cut their bodies or shave off their hair to show their grief for them.^{[d] 7} No one will take any food to those who mourn for the dead to comfort them. No one will give them any wine to drink to console them for the loss of their father or mother.