Yirmeyahu 16 ירמיהו ט״ז

The word of the Lord came also to me, saying,

Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters in this place.

For thus says the Lord concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bore them, and concerning their fathers that begot them in this land;

they shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their carcasses shall be food for the birds of the sky, and for the beasts of the earth.

For thus says 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, says the Lord, both love and mercy.

Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor gash themselves, nor make themselves bald for them:

neither shall men break bread for them during the mourning, to comfort him for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for his father or for his mother.

Thou shalt also not go into the house of feasting, to sit with them to eat and to drink.

For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Yisra᾽el; Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place before your eyes, and in your days, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride.

And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt tell this people all these words, and they shall say to thee, Why has the Lord pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have committed against the Lord our God?

then shalt thou say to them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, says the Lord, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my Tora;

and you have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, you walk every one after the stubbornness of his evil heart, that they may not hearken to me:

therefore will I cast you out of this land into a land that you know not, neither you nor your fathers; and there shall you serve other gods day and night; for I will show you no favour.

Therefore, behold, days are coming, says the Lord, when it shall no more be said, As the Lord lives, that brought up the children of Yisra᾽el out of the land of Miżrayim;

but, As the Lord lives, that brought up the children of Yisra᾽el from the land of the north, and from all the lands into which he had driven them: and I will bring them back into their land that I gave to their fathers.

Behold, I will send for many fishers, says the Lord, and they shall fish for them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them out from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.

For my eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from my eyes.

And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; because they have profaned my land, they have filled my inheritance with the carcasses of their detestable and abominable things.

O Lord, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, nations shall come to Thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vain idols, and things in which there is no profit.

Shall a man make gods to himself, and they are no gods?

Therefore, behold, I will make known to them this once, I will cause them to know my hand and my might; and they shall know that my name is The Lord.