Jeremiah 16

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1Yahwehs word came also to me, saying,2 You shall not take a wife, neither shall you have sons or daughters, in this place.3 For Yahweh says concerning the sons and concerning the daughters who are born in this place, and concerning their mothers who bore them, and concerning their fathers who became their father in this land:4 They will die grievous deaths: they will not be lamented, neither will they be buried. They will be as dung on the surface of the ground. They will be consumed by the sword and by famine. Their dead bodies will be food for the birds of the sky and for the animals of the earth.5 For Yahweh says, Dont enter into the house of mourning. Dont go to lament. Dont bemoan them, for I have taken away my peace from this people, says Yahweh, even loving kindness and tender mercies.6 Both great and small will die in this land. They will not be buried. Men wont lament for them, cut themselves, or make themselves bald for them.7 Men wont break bread for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead. Men wont give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.8 You shall not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and to drink.