The house of mourning. —Better, mourning-feast. The word is found only here and in Amos 6:7, where it is translated “banq…

As Jeremiah was forbidden at the beginning of the chapter to take a wife, because a dreadful devastation of the whole land was very near, so now Go…

For thus says the Lord, enter not into the house of mourning ,
&c.] On account of his dead relations or neighbours; …

The prophet must conduct himself as one who expected to see his country ruined very shortly. Anticipating sad times, he is to abstain from marriage…

1. Here, the Lord forbids the prophet from associating with the condemned people.

First, He gives the sentence, and second, He gives …