16And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,^a ²“You shall not take for yourself a wife, there shall not be for you sons and daughters in this place.” ³For thus says Yahweh concerning the sons and concerning the daughters born in this place, and concerning their mothers who gave birth to them, and concerning their fathers who fathered them in this land: ⁴“They will die by diseases, they will not be mourned, and they will not be buried. They will be as dung on the face of the earth. And they will perish by the sword and they will perish by the famine. And their dead bodies^b will become food for the birds^c of the air, and for the wild animals^d of the earth.”

⁵For thus says Yahweh, “You must not enter the house of the funeral meal, and you must not go to lament, and you must not show sympathy for them, for I have taken away my peace from this people,” declares^e Yahweh, “the loyal love and the compassion. ⁶Both the great and small will die in this land. They will not be buried, and they will not mourn for them, and no one will cut himself with a blade, and no one will shave himself for them. ⁷And 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,^f or for their mothers.^g ⁸And you shall not enter the house of the banquet, to sit with them, to eat and drink.”

⁹For thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, “Look, I am about to cause to disappear from this place, before your eyes and in your days, the voice of jubilation, and the voice of joy, and the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride.

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Footnotes

aLiterally “to say”
bHebrew “dead body”
cHebrew “bird”
dHebrew “wild animal”
eLiterally “a declaration of”
fHebrew “father”
gHebrew “mother”