Jeremiah 16:8

Jeremiah chapter 16 · verse 8 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.7neither 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.

v.8This passage

v.9For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: 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.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Ephesians 5:11

    and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them;

  • Ecclesiastes 7:2

    It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.

  • Psalms 26:4

    I have not sat with men of falsehood; Neither will I go in with dissemblers.

  • Luke 17:27

    They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.

  • 1 Corinthians 5:11

    but as it is, I wrote unto you not to keep company, if any man that is named a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one no, not to eat.

  • Jeremiah 15:17

    I sat not in the assembly of them that make merry, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of thy hand; for thou hast filled me with indignation.