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Jeremiah 16:5

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Indeed, this is what the LORD says: “Do not enter a house where there is a funeral meal. Do not go to mourn or show sympathy, for I have removed from this people My peace, My loving devotion, and My compassion,” declares the LORD.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

For thus saith Jehovah, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament, neither bemoan them; for I have taken away my peace from this people, saith Jehovah, even lovingkindness and tender mercies.

KJV

For thus saith the Lord, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, saith the Lord, even lovingkindness and mercies.

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This verse in Jeremiah 16

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

(Eze 24:17, 22, 23). house of mourning-- (Mr 5:38). Margin, "mourning-feast"; such feasts were usual at funerals. The Hebrew means, in Am 6:7, the cry of joy at a banquet; here, and La 2:19, the cry of sorrow.

This site's exposition

Enter not into the house of mourning

on Jeremiah 16:5-9

The prohibition runs in both directions: Jeremiah may not enter the house of mourning to comfort the bereaved, and he may not enter the house of feasting to celebrate with the living, because peace, lovingkindness, and mercies have already been withdrawn from this people before the sword arrives. Henry reads the withheld comfort as itself a sermon, no one troubling to console mourners when the dying are past counting, so that the ordinary rites of grief, the cutting, the shaving, the cup of consolation, will have no occasion left to be performed. Gill notes that the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, names an ordinary wedding only to announce its silence.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Enter not - Do not go to comfort such as mourn for any relations dead, (for their feastings upon those occasions were upon a consolatory account) those that die are most happy, for I will take away the peace of this people, and deprive them of all my mercy and loving-kindness.

The words behind it

27 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • כִּֽי־for

    ki-H3588 →4482 times

  • כֹ֣ה׀thus

    khohH3541 →577 times

  • אָמַ֣רhe says

    ʾamarH559 →5305 times

  • יְהוָ֗הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • אַל־may not

    ʾal-H408 →724 times

  • תָּבוֹא֙you enter

    tavo'H935 →2568 times

  • בֵּ֣יתa house of

    beitH1004 →2046 times

  • מַרְזֵ֔חַmourning

    marzeachH4798 →

  • וְאַל־and may not

    veal-H408 →724 times

  • תֵּלֵ֣ךְyou go

    telekhH1980 →1546 times

  • לִסְפּ֔וֹדto lament

    lispodH5594 →30 times

  • וְאַל־and may not

    veal-H408 →724 times

  • תָּנֹ֖דyou show sympathy

    tanodH5110 →24 times

  • לָהֶ֑םto <the> them

    lahem

  • כִּֽי־for

    ki-H3588 →4482 times

  • אָסַ֨פְתִּיI have withdrawn

    ʾasaftiH622 →200 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • שְׁלוֹמִ֜יpeace my

    shelomiH7965 →236 times

  • מֵאֵ֨תfrom with

    meetH854 →929 times

  • הָעָ֤ם־the people

    haam-H5971 →1873 times

  • הַזֶּה֙<the> this

    hazehH2088 →1180 times

  • נְאֻם־[the] utterance of

    neum-H5002 →376 times

  • יְהוָ֔הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הַחֶ֖סֶדthe covenant loyalty

    hachesedH2617 →247 times

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • הָֽרַחֲמִֽים׃<the> compassion<s>

    harachamimH7356 →

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

14 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Ezekiel 24:16–23“Son of man, behold, I am about to take away the desire of your eyes with a fatal blow. But you must not mourn or weep or let your tears flow.6 worksIsaiah 27:11When its limbs are dry, they are broken off. Women come and use them for kindling; for this is a people without understanding. Therefore their Maker has no compassion on them, and their Creator shows them no favor.5 worksDeuteronomy 31:17On that day My anger will burn against them, and I will abandon them and hide My face from them, so that they will be consumed, and many troubles and afflictions will befall them. On that day they will say, ‘Have not these disasters come upon us because our God is no longer with us?’4 worksJeremiah 15:1–4Then the LORD said to me: “Even if Moses and Samuel should stand before Me, My heart would not go out to this people. Send them from My presence, and let them go.4 worksJeremiah 16:6–7“Both great and small will die in this land. They will not be buried or mourned, nor will anyone cut himself or shave his head for them.3 worksRevelation 6:4Then another horse went forth. It was bright red, and its rider was granted permission to take away peace from the earth and to make men slay one another. And he was given a great sword.3 works
The other 8 cross-references, with their words ▾
Hosea 2:4I will have no compassion on her children, because they are the children of adultery.3 worksLamentations 3:17My soul has been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is.3 worksZechariah 8:10For before those days neither man nor beast received wages, nor was there safety from the enemy for anyone who came or went, for I had turned every man against his neighbor.2 works2 Chronicles 15:5–6In those days there was no safety for travelers, because the residents of the lands had many conflicts.2 works2 Kings 9:18So a horseman rode off to meet Jehu and said, “This is what the king asks: ‘Have you come in peace?’” “What do you know about peace?” Jehu replied. “Fall in behind me.” And the watchman reported, “The messenger reached them, but he is not coming back.”2 worksJeremiah 15:5Who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem? Who will mourn for you? Who will turn aside to ask about your welfare?2 worksJeremiah 16:3For this is what the LORD says concerning the sons and daughters born in this place, and the mothers who bore them, and the fathers who fathered them in this land:2 worksJeremiah 13:14I will smash them against one another, fathers and sons alike, declares the LORD. I will allow no mercy or pity or compassion to keep Me from destroying them.’”2 works

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Deuteronomy 31:17

    On that day My anger will burn against them, and I will abandon them and hide My face from them, so that they will be consumed, and many troubles and afflictions will befall them.…

    it leads to

    • Numbers 14:42

      Do not go up, lest you be struck down by your enemies, because the LORD is not among you.

    • Isaiah 8:17

      I will wait for the LORD, who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob. I will put my trust in Him.

    • Psalms 104:29

      When You hide Your face, they are terrified; when You take away their breath, they die and return to dust.

    • 2 Chronicles 15:2

      So he went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Listen to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin. The LORD is with you when you are with Him. If you seek Him,…

    • Judges 6:13

      “Please, my Lord,” Gideon replied, “if the LORD is with us, why has all this happened to us? And where are all His wonders of which our fathers told us, saying, ‘Has not the…

  • Through

    Isaiah 27:11

    When its limbs are dry, they are broken off. Women come and use them for kindling; for this is a people without understanding. Therefore their Maker has no compassion on them, and their Creator…

    it leads to

    • Isaiah 44:24

      Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer who formed you from the womb: “I am the LORD, who has made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who by Myself spread out the earth,

    • Isaiah 1:3

      The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s manger, but Israel does not know; My people do not understand.”

    • Isaiah 43:7

      everyone called by My name and created for My glory, whom I have indeed formed and made.”

About Jeremiah

The Prophet Jeremiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Prophet Jeremiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Jeremiah: the study guide →Read Jeremiah 16 →

This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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