Jeremías 16:7

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.

Jeremías 16:7 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 16:7

Neither shall men tear themselves
Either their flesh, or their clothes: or, "stretch out" ^F25; that is, their hands, and clap them together, and wring them, as persons in great distress do: or "divide", or "break", or "deal unto them" ^F26; that is, bread, as at their funeral feasts. Thus the Septuagint version, neither shall bread be broken in their mourning; and to the same sense the Targum; so the word is used in ( Isaiah 63:7 ) , a practice that obtained among the Heathens; see ( Deuteronomy 26:14 ) and now with the Jews, as it seems: which they did for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead;
they used to carry or send food to the surviving relations, and went and ate with them, in order to comfort them for the loss of their friends; but this now would not be done, not because an Heathenish custom, but because they would have no heart nor leisure for it: see ( Ezekiel 24:17 ) . Neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their
father or for their mother:
not give them a cup of good liquor to comfort and cheer their spirits, overwhelmed with sorrow, on account of the death of a father or mother; which was wont to be done, but now should be omitted; the calamity would be so great, and so universal, that there would be none to do such offices as these; see ( Proverbs 31:6 Proverbs 31:7 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F25 (worpy alw) "et non expandent, [sub.] manus suas", Vatablus, Montanus; "extendent", Pagninus, Calvin. So Kimchi and Ben Melech.
F26 "Non divident", Tigurine version; "neque impertientur, [sub.] cibum", Junius & Tremellius; "partientur panem", Piscator; "neque cibum dabunt", Schmidt. So Jarchi, Joseph Kimchi, and Abarbinel.

Jeremías 16:7 In-Context

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.

8 »No vayas a sus fiestas ni a sus banquetes. Ni siquiera comas o bebas con ellos.

9 Pues esto dice el Señor
de los Ejércitos Celestiales, Dios de Israel: en sus propios días y ante sus propios ojos pondré fin a las risas y a las canciones alegres en esta tierra. Ya no se oirán las voces felices de los novios ni de las novias.