Jeremiah 16:4-6

International Standard Version

⁴ “They’ll die of deadly diseases. People won’t mourn for them, nor will they be buried. They’ll be dung on the surface of the ground, and they’ll come to an end with the sword and with famine. Their dead bodies will be food for the birds of the sky and the animals of the land.”

⁵ For this is what the Lord says: “Don’t go to a house where there is mourning, don’t go to lament, nor to express sorrow to them. For I’ve taken my peace away from this people,” declares the Lord, “as well as gracious love and compassion. ⁶ Both the most and the least important people^[a] will die in this land, and they won’t be buried. People won’t mourn for them. They won’t cut themselves,^[b] nor will they shave their heads for them.^[c]