OLD TESTAMENT

Jeremiah 16:5

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For the LORD says, “Don’t enter into the house of mourning. Don’t go to lament. Don’t bemoan them, for I have taken away my peace from this people,” says the LORD, “even loving kindness and tender mercies.

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Verse 5. Feasting: usual at burials for all relations. Calmet.—This custom reduced many to poverty. Jos. Bel. ii. 1.—

Sed cænam funerishæres

Negliget iratus quod rem curtaverit. Pers. vi.

—Mourn, if thou shouldst meet a funeral. Lu. 7:32.

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