Jeremiah 16:3-5

Lexham English Bible

³ For 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^[a] will become food for the birds^[b] of the air, and for the wild animals^[c] of the earth.”

⁵ 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^[d] Yahweh, “the loyal love and the compassion.