Jeremiah 16:4-7 they die deaths of sicknesses; - neither chopped after nor entombed; - as dung on the face of the soil: - finished off by the sword and by famine; and their carcases are meat for the flyers of the heavens and for the animals of the earth.

ECB⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁴ they die deaths of sicknesses; - neither chopped after nor entombed; - as dung on the face of the soil: - finished off by the sword and by famine; and their carcases are meat for the flyers of the heavens and for the animals of the earth. ⁵ For thus says Yah Veh, Neither enter the house of a feast of mourning, nor go to chop nor wag over them: for I gather my shalom from this people - an oracle of Yah Veh even mercy and mercies. ⁶ Both the great and the lesser die in this land: neither entombed nor chopped over; neither incise nor balden yourselves for them: ⁷ neither separate yourselves for them in mourning to sigh over them for the dead; nor drink the cup of consolation for their father or for their mother: