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Jeremiah 16:5

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16:5“Moreover I, the Lord, tell you:3 ‘Do not go into a house where they are having a funeral meal. Do not go there to mourn and express your sorrow for them. For I have stopped showing them my good favor,4 my love, and my compassion. I, the Lord, so affirm it!5

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Footnotes

  1. 3 Heb “For thus says the Lord …”
  2. 4 Heb “my peace.” The Hebrew word שְׁלוֹמִי (shélomi) can be translated “peace, prosperity” or “well-being” (referring to wholeness or health of body and soul).
  3. 5 Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

“For thus says the Lord: Do not enter the house of mourning, or go to lament or grieve for them, for I have taken away my peace from this people, my steadfast love and mercy, declares the Lord.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

For this is what the Lord says: “Do not enter a house where there is a funeral meal; do not go to mourn or show sympathy, because I have withdrawn my blessing, my love and my pity from this people,” declares the Lord.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

“For this is what the Lord says: Don’t enter a house where a mourning feast is taking place. Don’t go to lament or sympathize with them, for I have removed my peace from these people as well as my faithful love and compassion.” This is the Lord’s declaration.

NLTNew Living Translation

This is what the Lord says: “Do not go to funerals to mourn and show sympathy for these people, for I have removed my protection and peace from them. I have taken away my unfailing love and my mercy.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

For 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 Yahweh, “the loyal love and the compassion.

KJV 1900King James Version

For thus saith the Lord, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, saith the Lord, even lovingkindness and mercies.