Jeremiah 16:7-9

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

⁷ No one shall break bread^[a] for the mourner, to offer comfort for the dead, nor shall anyone give them the cup of consolation to drink for their fathers or their mothers.^{(A) 8} You shall not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and drink.^{(B) 9} For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: I am going to banish from this place, in your days and before your eyes, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.^(C)