Jeremiah 16:7

Overview - Jeremiah 16
The prophet, under the types of abstaining from marriage, from houses of mourning and feasting, foreshews the utter ruin of the Jews;
10 because they were worse than their fathers.
14 Their return from captivity shall be stranger than their deliverance out of Egypt.
16 God will doubly recompense their idolatry.
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Jeremiah 16:7  (King James Version)
Neither shall men tear themselves for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.
 


tear themselves
or, break bread.
Deuteronomy 26:14 ; Job 42:11 ; Ezekiel 24:17 ; Hosea 9:4

cup
Proverbs 31:6 Proverbs 31:7