Jeremiah 16:1-7 ▼

1 And there is a word of YHWH to me, saying,

2 “You do not take a wife to yourself, || Nor do you have sons and daughters in this place.”

3 For thus said YHWH, || Of the sons and of the daughters who are born in this place, || And of their mothers—those bearing them, || And of their fathers—those begetting them in this land:

4 “They die painful deaths, || They are not lamented, nor are they buried, || For they are dung on the face of the ground, || And are consumed by sword and by famine, || And their carcass has been for food || To the bird of the heavens, || And to the beast of the earth.”

5 For thus said YHWH: “Do not enter the house of a mourning-feast, || Nor go to lament nor bemoan for them, || For I have removed My peace from this people,” || A declaration of YHWH, || “The kindness and the mercies.

6 And great and small have died in this land, || They are not buried, and none lament for them, || Nor does any cut himself, nor become bald for them.

7 Nor do they deal out to them for mourning, || To comfort him concerning the dead, || Nor cause them to drink a cup of consolations || For his father and for his mother.