Jeremiah 16:8
New International Version
“And do not enter a house where there is feasting and sit down to eat and drink.

New Living Translation
“And do not go to their feasts and parties. Do not eat and drink with them at all.

English Standard Version
You shall not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and drink.

Berean Standard Bible
You must not enter a house where there is feasting and sit down with them to eat and drink.

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

New King James Version
Also you shall not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and drink.”

New American Standard Bible
Moreover, you shall not go into a house of feasting to sit with them to eat and drink.”

NASB 1995
“Moreover you shall not go into a house of feasting to sit with them to eat and drink.”

NASB 1977
“Moreover you shall not go into a house of feasting to sit with them to eat and drink.”

Legacy Standard Bible
Moreover you shall not go into a house of feasting to sit with them to eat and drink.”

Amplified Bible
And you [Jeremiah] shall not go into a house of feasting to sit with them to eat and drink.”

Christian Standard Bible
Do not enter the house where feasting is taking place to sit with them to eat and drink.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
You must not enter the house where feasting is taking place to sit with them to eat and drink.

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And you shall not enter a house of feasting to dwell with them, to eat and to drink

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Thou shalt not enter into the banquet-house, to sit with them to eat and to drink.

Contemporary English Version
Don't even set foot in a house where there is eating and drinking and celebrating.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And do not thou go into the house of feasting, to sit with them, and to eat and drink.

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"Don't even go into a home where there is a banquet. Don't sit with them to eat and drink.

Good News Translation
"Do not enter a house where people are feasting. Do not sit down with them to eat and drink.

International Standard Version
Don't go to a banquet to sit with people to eat and drink."

JPS Tanakh 1917
And thou shalt not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and to drink.

Literal Standard Version
You do not enter a house of banqueting, | To sit with them, to eat and to drink,”

Majority Standard Bible
You must not enter a house where there is feasting and sit down with them to eat and drink.

New American Bible
Do not enter a house of feasting to sit eating and drinking with them.

NET Bible
"'Do not go to a house where people are feasting and sit down to eat and drink with them either.

New Revised Standard Version
You shall not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and drink.

New Heart English Bible
You shall not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and to drink.

Webster's Bible Translation
Also thou shalt not go into the house of feasting, to sit with them to eat and to drink.

World English Bible
“You shall not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and to drink.”

Young's Literal Translation
A house of banqueting thou dost not enter, To sit with them, to eat and to drink,

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Context
Disaster Predicted
7No 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. 8You must not enter a house where there is feasting and sit down with them to eat and drink. 9For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I am going to remove from this place, before your very eyes and in your days, the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom.…

Cross References
Ecclesiastes 7:2
It is better to enter a house of mourning than a house of feasting, since death is the end of every man, and the living should take this to heart.

Isaiah 22:12
On that day the Lord GOD of Hosts called for weeping and wailing, for shaven heads and the wearing of sackcloth.

Jeremiah 15:17
I never sat with the band of revelers, nor did I celebrate with them. Because Your hand was on me, I sat alone, for You have filled me with indignation.

Amos 6:4
You lie on beds inlaid with ivory, and lounge upon your couches. You dine on lambs from the flock and calves from the stall.


Treasury of Scripture

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

Jeremiah 15:17
I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of thy hand: for thou hast filled me with indignation.

Psalm 26:4
I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers.

Ecclesiastes 7:2-4
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…

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Jeremiah 16
1. The prophet, under the types of abstaining from marriage,
8. from houses of mourning and feasting, foreshows the utter ruin of the Jews;
10. because they were worse than their fathers.
14. Their return from captivity shall be stranger than their deliverance out of Egypt.
16. God will doubly recompense their idolatry.














(8) Into the house of feasting.--Literally, the house of drinking, i.e., in this case, as interpreted by the next verse, of festive and mirthful gathering. This prohibition follows a fortiori from the other. If it was unmeet for the prophet to enter into the house of mourning, much more was he to hold himself aloof from mirth. He was to stand apart, in the awful consciousness of his solitary mission. The words of Ecclesiastes 7:2 come to our thoughts as teaching that it was better even so.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
You must not
לֹא־ (lō-)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

enter
תָב֖וֹא (ṯā·ḇō·w)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 935: To come in, come, go in, go

a house
וּבֵית־ (ū·ḇêṯ-)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 1004: A house

where there is feasting
מִשְׁתֶּ֥ה (miš·teh)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4960: Drink, drinking, a banquet, feast

and sit down
לָשֶׁ֣בֶת (lā·še·ḇeṯ)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 3427: To sit down, to dwell, to remain, to settle, to marry

with them
אוֹתָ֑ם (’ō·w·ṯām)
Preposition | third person masculine plural
Strong's 854: Nearness, near, with, by, at, among

to eat
לֶאֱכֹ֖ל (le·’ĕ·ḵōl)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 398: To eat

and drink.
וְלִשְׁתּֽוֹת׃ (wə·liš·tō·wṯ)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 8354: To imbibe


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