Jeremiah 16:4
They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their carcases shall be meat for the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.
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Study Note
The decree that the slain of the coming disaster 'shall not be lamented; neither shall they be buried' withdraws from the people the basic funeral dignities that ancient Near Eastern cultures regarded as essential for the well-being of the dead. Denial of burial was the ultimate shaming in the ancient world, invoked as a covenant curse in Deuteronomy 28:26 and used by Amos 8:3 and Ezekiel 29:5 as markers of total divine judgment. The verse functions in Jeremiah's symbolic-act theology as a lived embodiment of the coming catastrophe, with the prophet's own forbidden mourning (verse 5) acting as a sign to the people that God himself has withdrawn his shalom from them.
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They shall die grievous deaths: they shall not be lamented, neither shall they be buried; they shall be as dung upon the face of the ground; and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their dead bodies shall be food for the birds of the heavens, and for the beasts of the earth.
Of painful deaths they die, They are not lamented, nor are they buried, For dung on the face of the ground they are, And by sword and by famine are consumed, And their carcase hath been for food To the fowl of the heavens, And to the beast of the earth.
Death from evil diseases will overtake them; there will be no weeping for them and their bodies will not be put to rest; they will be like waste on the face of the earth: the sword and need of food will put an end to them; their dead bodies will be meat for the birds of heaven and for the beasts of the earth.
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