Jeremias 16:5

5 Porque assim diz o SENHOR: “Não entre numa casa onde há luto; não vá prantear nem apresentar condolências, porque retirei a minha paz, o meu amor leal e a minha compaixão deste povo”, declara o SENHOR.

Jeremias 16:5 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 16:5

For thus saith the Lord, enter not into the house of mourning,
&c.] On account of his dead relations or neighbours; since they were taken away from the evil to come, and therefore no occasion to mourn for them: moreover, this was to show the certainty of what is before and after said; that, at the time of the general calamity predicted, there would be no lamentation made for the dead. R. Joseph Kimchi says the word here used signifies, in the Arabic ^F23 language, a lifting of the voice, either for weeping, or for joy ^F24; and Jarchi, out of the ancient book Siphri, interprets it a "feast"; and it is rendered a "banquet" in ( Amos 6:7 ) , and so may here design a mourning feast, such as were used at funerals, called by the Greeks (perideipnea) , and by the Latins "parentalia", as Jerom observes. Neither go to lament nor bemoan them; neither go to the house of mourning, or the mourning feast; to the houses of the deceased, to condole the surviving relations, and to express sorrow for the dead, by shedding tears, and shaking the head, or by any other gesture or ceremony after mentioned, For I have taken away my peace from this people, saith the Lord;
all peace or prosperity is of God, and therefore called his, and which he can take away from a people when he pleases; and having determined to take it away from this people because of their sins, he is said to have done it, it being as certain as if it was done: even lovingkindness and mercies;
all benefits, which flowed from his favour, love, and mercy, as the whole of their prosperity did.

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FOOTNOTES:

F23 <arabic> "magna et vehementi voce praeditus", Golius ex Giggeio, col. 979.
F24 So the word is used in the Chaldee language: as Schindler observes in Lex. col. 1722.

Jeremias 16:5 In-Context

3 porque assim diz o SENHOR a respeito dos filhos e filhas nascidos nesta terra e a respeito das mulheres que forem suas mães e dos homens que forem seus pais:

4 “Eles morrerão de doenças graves; ninguém pranteará por eles; não serão sepultados, mas servirão de esterco para o solo. Perecerão pela espada e pela fome, e os seus cadáveres serão o alimento das aves e dos animais”.

5 Porque assim diz o SENHOR: “Não entre numa casa onde há luto; não vá prantear nem apresentar condolências, porque retirei a minha paz, o meu amor leal e a minha compaixão deste povo”, declara o SENHOR.

6 “Tanto grandes como pequenos morrerão nesta terra; não serão sepultados nem se pranteará por eles; não se farão incisões nem se rapará a cabeça por causa deles.

7 Ninguém oferecerá comida para fortalecer os que pranteiam pelos mortos; ninguém dará de beber do cálice da consolação nem mesmo pelo pai ou pela mãe.