Jeremiah 16:5-7

The Voice

⁵ This is what I declare to you, My prophet: Do not go inside a house that is mourning. Do not grieve with these friends and families. Do not comfort them because I, the Eternal One, have taken My peace, even My loyal love and mercy, from them. ⁶ Death will come to the great and small of this land, but they will not be buried or mourned. There will be no one left to cut themselves or shave their heads in ritual displays of mourning. ⁷ No one will bring food to comfort those in mourning or offer a drink to console even one who has lost a parent.