Geremia 16:4

4 Essi morranno consunti dalle malattie, non saranno rimpianti, e non avranno sepoltura; serviranno di letame sulla faccia del suolo; saranno consumati dalla spada e dalla fame, e i loro cadaveri saran pasto agli uccelli del cielo, e alle bestie della terra.

Geremia 16:4 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 16:4

They shall die of grievous deaths
Such as the sword, famine, and pestilence. The Targum particularly adds famine. It may be rendered, "deaths of diseases, or sicknesses" ^F21; such as are brought on by long sickness and lingering distempers; by which a man consumes gradually, as by famine, and is not snatched away at once; and which are very grievous to bear. They shall not be lamented, neither shall they be buried;
which two offices are usually done to the dead by their surviving relations; who mourn for them, and express their grief by various gestures, and which especially were used by the eastern nations; and take care that they have a decent burial: but neither of these would now be, which is mentioned as an aggravation of the calamity; that not only the deaths they should die of would be grievous ones, but after death no regard would be shown them; and that either because there would be none to do these things for them; or they would be so much taken up in providing for their own safety, and so much in concern for their own preservation, that they would not be at leisure to attend to the above things: but they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth;
lie and rot there, and be dung to the earth; which would be a just retaliation, for their filthy and abominable actions committed in the land: and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine;
the grievous deaths before mentioned; the sword without, and the famine within; the one more sudden, and at once, the other more lingering; and therefore may be more especially designed by the death of lingering sicknesses referred to: and their carcasses shall be meat for the fowls of heaven, and
for the beasts of the earth;
lying unburied; see ( Jeremiah 7:33 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F21 (Myalxt ytwmm) "mortibus aegrotationum", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, "aegritudium", Munster, Vatablus; "mortibus morborum", Schmidt. So Stockius, p. 340, 597, who restrains it to the death of individuals by the pestilence.

Geremia 16:4 In-Context

2 Non ti prender moglie e non aver figliuoli né figliuole in questo luogo.

3 Poiché così parla l’Eterno riguardo ai figliuoli e alle figliuole che nascono in questo paese, e alle madri che li partoriscono, e ai padri che li generano in questo paese:

4 Essi morranno consunti dalle malattie, non saranno rimpianti, e non avranno sepoltura; serviranno di letame sulla faccia del suolo; saranno consumati dalla spada e dalla fame, e i loro cadaveri saran pasto agli uccelli del cielo, e alle bestie della terra.

5 Poiché così parla l’Eterno: Non entrare nella casa del lutto, non andare a far cordoglio con loro né a compiangerli, perché, dice l’Eterno, io ho ritirato da questo popolo la mia pace, la mia benignità, la mia compassione.

6 Grandi e piccoli morranno in questo paese; non avranno sepoltura, non si farà cordoglio per loro, nessuno si farà incisioni addosso o si raderà per loro;