Jeremías 16:5

5 Se acerca el castigo a Judá
Esto dice el Señor
: «No vayas a los funerales para llorar y mostrar compasión por ellos, porque he retirado mi protección y mi paz de ellos; he quitado mi amor inagotable y mi misericordia.

Jeremías 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.

Jeremías 16:5 In-Context

3 Pues esto dice el Señor
acerca de los niños nacidos en esta ciudad y de sus madres y padres:

4 morirán de enfermedades terribles. Nadie llorará por ellos ni tampoco los enterrarán sino que yacerán dispersos sobre el suelo como si fueran estiércol. Morirán por la guerra y morirán de hambre, y sus cuerpos serán comida para los buitres y los animales salvajes».

5 Se acerca el castigo a Judá
Esto dice el Señor
: «No vayas a los funerales para llorar y mostrar compasión por ellos, porque he retirado mi protección y mi paz de ellos; he quitado mi amor inagotable y mi misericordia.

6 Tanto el grande como el humilde morirán en esta tierra. Nadie los enterrará ni se lamentará por ellos. Sus amigos no se cortarán la piel ni se afeitarán la cabeza en señal de tristeza.

7 Nadie ofrecerá una comida para consolar a quienes estén de luto por un muerto, ni siquiera por la muerte de una madre o de un padre. Nadie enviará una copa de vino para consolarlos.