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Jeremiah 16:7

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7Food won’t be provided for the mournerq to comfort him because of the dead. A consoling drink won’t be given him for the loss of his father or mother.

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Cross references

  1. qDt 26:14; Ezk 24:17; Hs 9:4

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

No one shall break bread for the mourner, to comfort him for the dead, nor shall anyone give him the cup of consolation to drink for his father or his mother.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

No one will offer food to comfort those who mourn for the dead—not even for a father or a mother—nor will anyone give them a drink to console them.

NLTNew Living Translation

No one will offer a meal to comfort those who mourn for the dead—not even at the death of a mother or father. No one will send a cup of wine to console them.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And they will not break bread for the mourning ceremony for them, to comfort him because of the dead. And they will not give drink to them, the cup of desolation, for their fathers, or for their mothers.

KJV 1900King 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.