Jeremias 16:8

8 Não entres na casa do banquete, para te assentares com eles a comer e a beber.

Jeremias 16:8 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 16:8

Thou shall not also go into the house of feasting
Which it was lawful to do, and which the prophet doubtless had done at other times; but now a time of calamity coming on, it was not proper he should; and the rather he was to abstain from such places, and from pleasant conversation with his friends, to assure them that such a time was coming, and this his conduct was a sign of it; for which reason he is forbid to attend any entertainment of his friends, on account of marriage, or any other circumstance of life, for which feasts were used: to sit with them to eat and to drink:
which not only expresses the position at table, but continuance there; for at feasts men not only eat and drink for necessity, or just to satisfy nature, but for pleasure, and unto and with cheerfulness; which may lawfully be done, provided that temperance and sobriety be preserved; but the prophet is not allowed to do that now, which at other times he might do, and did; and that on purpose that his friends might take notice of it, and inquire the reason of it, the distress that was coming upon them, as the words following show.

Jeremias 16:8 In-Context

6 E morrerão nesta terra tanto grandes como pequenos; não serão sepultados, e não os prantearão, nem se farão por eles incisões, nem por eles se raparão os cabelos;

7 nem pão se dará aos que estiverem de luto, para os consolar sobre os mortos; nem se lhes dará a beber o copo da consolação pelo pai ou pela mãe.

8 Não entres na casa do banquete, para te assentares com eles a comer e a beber.

9 Pois assim diz o Senhor dos exércitos, o Deus de Israel: Eis que perante os vossos olhos, e em vossos dias, farei cessar deste lugar a voz de gozo e a voz de alegria, a voz do noivo e a voz da noiva.

10 E quando anunciares a este povo todas estas palavras, e eles te disserem: Por que pronuncia o Senhor sobre :nós todo este grande mal? Qual é a nossa iniqüidade? Qual é o pecado que cometemos contra o Senhor nosso Deus?