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Literal Standard Version

Jeremiah 16:7

Nor do they deal out to them for mourning, || To comfort him concerning the dead, || Nor cause them to drink a cup of consolations || For his father and for his mother.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Cup;   Mourning;   Scofield Reference Index - Kingdom;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Burial;   Dead, the;   Idolatry;   Plague or Pestilence, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Burial;   Feasts;   Mourning;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Consolation;   Funeral;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Cup;   Entertain;   Funeral;   Mourn;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Burial;   Mourning;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Consolation;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ancestor-Worship;   Cup;   Jeremiah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Cup ;   Lord's Supper. (I.);   Love-Feast;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Burial;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Mourning;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Cup;   Decease, in the Old Testament and Apocyphra;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Ancestor Worship;   Banquets;   Consolation;   Cup;   Mother;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Food won’t be provided for the mourner to comfort him because of the dead. A consoling drink won’t be given him for the loss of his father or mother.
Hebrew Names Version
neither shall men break [bread] 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.
King 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.
English 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.
New American Standard Bible
"People will not break bread in mourning for them, to comfort anyone for the dead, nor give them a cup of consolation to drink for anyone's father or mother.
New Century Version
No one will bring food to comfort those who are crying for the dead. No one will offer a drink to comfort someone whose mother or father has died.
Amplified Bible
"People will not offer food to the mourners, to comfort anyone [as they grieve] for the dead, nor give them a cup of consolation to drink for anyone's father or mother.
World English Bible
neither shall men break [bread] 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.
Geneva Bible (1587)
They shal not stretch out the hands for the in the mourning to comfort them for the dead, neither shal they giue them the cup of consolation to drinke for their father or for their mother.
Legacy Standard Bible
Men will not break bread in mourning for them, to comfort anyone for the dead, nor give them a cup of comforting to drink for anyone's father or mother.
Berean Standard Bible
No food will be offered to comfort those who mourn the dead; not even a cup of consolation will be given for the loss of a father or mother.
Contemporary English Version
No one will bring food and wine to help comfort those who are mourning the death of their father or mother.
Complete Jewish Bible
No one will prepare a meal for those in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; and no one will give them a cup to drink, to console them for their father or mother.'
Darby Translation
Nor shall they break [bread] for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall they give them the cup of consolations to drink for their father or for their mother.
Easy-to-Read Version
No one will bring food to those who are crying for the dead. No one will comfort those whose mother or father has died. No one will offer a drink to comfort those who are crying for the dead.
George Lamsa Translation
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 fathers or for their mothers.
Good News Translation
No one will eat or drink with anyone to offer comfort when a loved one dies. No one will show sympathy, not even for someone who has lost a father or mother.
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.
Literal Translation
Nor shall anyone break for them in mourning, to comfort him for ones who died. Nor shall they give them the cup of comfort to drink for one's father or one's mother.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
There shal not one viset another, to mourne with them for their deed, or to comforte them. One shall not offre another the cuppe off consolacion, to forget their heuynes for father and mother.
American Standard Version
neither shall men break bread 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.
Bible in Basic English
No one will make a feast for them in sorrow, to give them comfort for the dead, or put to their lips the cup of comfort on account of their father or their mother.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
neither shall men break bread 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.
King James Version (1611)
Neither shall men teare themselues for them in mourning to comfort them for the dead, neither shall men giue them the cuppe of consolation to drinke for their father, or for their mother.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
They shall not wryng their handes in mournyng wise on their dead one to comfort another: one shall not offer another the cup of consolation, to forget their heauinesse for their father and mother.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and there shall be no bread broken in mourning for them for consolation over the dead: they shall not give one to drink a cup for consolation over his father or his mother.
English Revised Version
neither shall men break bread 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.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thei schulen not breke breed among hem to hym that mourneth, to coumforte on a deed man, and thei schulen not yyue to hem drynk of a cuppe, to coumforte on her fadir and modir.
Update Bible Version
neither shall men break bread for the mourner, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.
Webster's Bible Translation
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.
New English Translation
No one will take any food to those who mourn for the dead to comfort them. No one will give them any wine to drink to console them for the loss of their father or mother.
New King James Version
Nor shall men break bread in mourning for them, to comfort them for the dead; nor shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or their mother.
New 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.
New Life Bible
No one will give food to comfort those who sorrow for the dead. And no one will give them the cup of comfort to drink even for the death of their father or mother.
New Revised Standard
No one shall break bread for the mourner, to offer comfort for the dead; nor shall anyone give them the cup of consolation to drink for their fathers or their mothers.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Neither shall they break bread to them in mourning To console one over his dead, - Nor cause them to drink the cup of consolation, Over ones father Or over ones mother;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And they shall not break bread among them to him that mourneth, to comfort him for the dead: neither shall they give them for their father and mother.
Revised Standard Version
No one shall break bread for the mourner, to comfort him for the dead; nor shall any one give him the cup of consolation to drink for his father or his mother.
Young's Literal Translation
Nor do they deal out to them for mourning, To comfort him concerning the dead, Nor cause them to drink a cup of consolations For his father and for his mother.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Men will not break bread in mourning for them, to comfort anyone for the dead, nor give them a cup of consolation to drink for anyone's father or mother.

Contextual Overview

1And there is a word of YHWH to me, saying, 2"You do not take a wife to yourself, || Nor do you have sons and daughters in this place." 3For thus said YHWH, || Of the sons and of the daughters who are born in this place, || And of their mothers—those bearing them, || And of their fathers—those begetting them in this land: 4"They die painful deaths, || They are not lamented, nor are they buried, || For they are dung on the face of the ground, || And are consumed by sword and by famine, || And their carcass has been for food || To the bird of the heavens, || And to the beast of the earth." 5For thus said YHWH: "Do not enter the house of a mourning-feast, || Nor go to lament nor bemoan for them, || For I have removed My peace from this people," || A declaration of YHWH, || "The kindness and the mercies. 6And great and small have died in this land, || They are not buried, and none lament for them, || Nor does any cut himself, nor become bald for them. 7Nor do they deal out to them for mourning, || To comfort him concerning the dead, || Nor cause them to drink a cup of consolations || For his father and for his mother.8You do not enter a house of banqueting, || To sit with them, to eat and to drink," 9For thus said YHWH of Hosts, God of Israel: "Behold, I am causing to cease from this place, || Before your eyes, and in your days, || The voice of joy, and the voice of rejoicing, || The voice of bridegroom and voice of bride.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

tear themselves: or, break bread, Deuteronomy 26:14, Job 42:11, Ezekiel 24:17, Hosea 9:4

cup: Proverbs 31:6, Proverbs 31:7

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 3:35 - cause Jeremiah 16:5 - Enter Joel 2:1 - let Luke 22:17 - took

Cross-References

Genesis 20:1
And Abraham journeys from there toward the land of the south, and dwells between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourns in Gerar;
Genesis 21:17
And God hears the voice of the youth; and the messenger of God calls to Hagar from the heavens and says to her, "What to you, Hagar? Do not fear; for God has listened to the voice of the youth where he [is];
Genesis 22:11
And the Messenger of YHWH calls to him from the heavens and says, "Abraham, Abraham"; and he says, "Here I [am]";
Genesis 22:15
And the Messenger of YHWH calls to Abraham a second time from the heavens,
Genesis 25:18
and they dwell from Havilah to Shur, which [is] before Egypt, in [your] going toward Asshur; in the presence of all his brothers has he fallen.
Genesis 31:11
and the Messenger of God says to me in the dream, Jacob, and I say, Here I [am].
Exodus 15:22
And Moses causes Israel to journey from the Red Sea, and they go out to the wilderness of Shur, and they go three days in the wilderness, and have not found water,
1 Samuel 15:7
And Saul strikes Amalek from Havilah [to] your going to Shur, which [is] on the front of Egypt,
Proverbs 15:3
The eyes of YHWH are in every place, || Watching the evil and the good.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Neither shall men tear themselves,.... Either their flesh, or their clothes: or, "stretch out" y; that is, their hands, and clap them together, and wring them, as persons in great distress do: or "divide", or "break", or "deal unto them" z; that is, bread, as at their funeral feasts. Thus the Septuagint version, neither shall bread be broken in their mourning; and to the same sense the Targum; so the word is used in Isaiah 63:7, a practice that obtained among the Heathens; see Deuteronomy 26:14 and now with the Jews, as it seems: which they did

for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; they used to carry or send food to the surviving relations, and went and ate with them, in order to comfort them for the loss of their friends; but this now would not be done, not because an Heathenish custom, but because they would have no heart nor leisure for it: see Ezekiel 24:17.

Neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother: not give them a cup of good liquor to comfort and cheer their spirits, overwhelmed with sorrow, on account of the death of a father or mother; which was wont to be done, but now should be omitted; the calamity would be so great, and so universal, that there would be none to do such offices as these; see Proverbs 31:6.

y ולא יפרסו "et non expandent, [sub.] manus suas", Vatablus, Montanus; "extendent", Pagninus, Calvin. So Kimchi and Ben Melech. z "Non divident", Tigurine version; "neque impertientur, [sub.] cibum", Junius Tremellius "partientur panem", Piscator; "neque cibum dabunt", Schmidt. So Jarchi, Joseph Kimchi, and Abarbinel.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Tear themselves - Better as in the margin; “break broad for them.” It was customary upon the death of a relative to fast, and for the friends and neighbors after a decent delay to come and comfort the mourner, and urge food upon him 2 Samuel 12:17; food was also distributed at funerals to the mourners, and to the poor.

Cup of consolation - Marginal reference note.


 
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