Jeremiah 16:7 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

men tear themselves. break [bread]. Hebrew. paras, to break, used of breaking bread, as in Isaiah 58:7; Ezekiel 24:17; Hosea 9:4, and Revised Version. The Ellipsis, is wrongly supplied in Authorized Version. See the margin there.

Jeremiah 16:7

7 Neither shall men tearb themselves 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.