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Disaster Predicted

Jeremiah 16:8

In 11 translations

BSB
You must not enter a house where there is feasting and sit down with them to eat and drink.
KJV
Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting, to sit with them to eat and to drink.
WEB
“You shall not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and to drink.”
ASV
And thou shalt not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and to drink.
LSV
You do not enter a house of banqueting, || To sit with them, to eat and to drink,”
YLT
A house of banqueting thou dost not enter, To sit with them, to eat and to drink,
DBY
And thou shalt not go into the house of feasting, to sit with them, to eat and to drink.
DRC
And do not thou go into the house of feasting, to sit with them, and to eat and drink.
GNV
Thou shalt not also goe into the house of feasting to sit with them to eate and to drinke.
JPS
And thou shalt not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and to drink.
LXXE
Thou shalt not enter into the banquet-house, to sit with them to eat and to drink.

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Original-language editions

WLC
וּבֵית־מִשְׁתֶּ֥ה לֹא־תָב֖וֹא לָשֶׁ֣בֶת אוֹתָ֑ם לֶאֱכֹ֖ל וְלִשְׁתּֽוֹת׃
LXX-Br
Εἰς οἰκίαν πότου οὐκ εἰσελεύσῃ σὺ, συγκαθίσαι μετʼ αὐτῶν τοῦ φαγεῖν καὶ πιεῖν.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Jeremiah 15:17I 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.
  • Ecclesiastes 7:2–4It 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. Sorrow is better than laughter, for a sad countenance is good for the…
  • Amos 6:4–6You lie on beds inlaid with ivory, and lounge upon your couches. You dine on lambs from the flock and calves from the stall. You improvise songs on the harp like David and invent your own musical instruments. You drink…
  • Isaiah 22:12–14On that day the Lord GOD of Hosts called for weeping and wailing, for shaven heads and the wearing of sackcloth. But look, there is joy and gladness, butchering of cattle and slaughtering of sheep, eating of meat and…
  • Luke 17:27–29People were eating and drinking, marrying and being given in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all. It was the same in the days of Lot: People were eating and…
  • Psalms 26:4I do not sit with deceitful men, nor keep company with hypocrites.
  • Matthew 24:38For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark.
  • Ephesians 5:11Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.
  • 1 Corinthians 5:11But now I am writing you not to associate with anyone who claims to be a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a verbal abuser, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat.

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