Jeremiah 16:5

“For thus saith the Lord, enter not into the house of mourning, etc.] On account of his dead relations or neighbours; since they were taken away from the evil to come, and therefore no occasion to mourn for them: moreover, this was to show the certainty of what is before and after said; that, at the time of the general calamity predicted, there would be no lamentation made for the dead. R. Joseph Kimchi says the word here used signifies, in the Arabicf334 language, a lifting of the voice, either for weeping, or for joyf335; and Jarchi, out of the ancient book Siphri, interprets it a “feast”; and it is rendered a “banquet” in (<300607>Amos 6:7), and so may here design a mourning feast, such as…”

“(Eze 24:17, Eze 24:22-23). house of mourning-- (Mar 5:38). Margin, "mourning-feast"; such feasts were usual at funerals. The Hebrew means, in Amo 6:7, the cry of joy at a banquet; here, and Lam 2:19, the cry of sorrow.”

“Enter not - Do not go to comfort such as mourn for any relations dead, (for their feastings upon those occasions were upon a consolatory account) those that die are most happy, for I will take away the peace of this people, and deprive them of all my mercy and loving - kindness. Jeremiah 16:6”

“16:5-7 The ban on funerals and mourning was a parable with a message to the people of Judah. Destruction would be so great and widespread that no one would mourn properly or comfort others.”

“Enter: Jer 16:6, Jer 16:7; Eze 24:16-23 mourning: or, mourning feast I have: Jer 15:1-4; Deu 31:17; Ch2 15:5, Ch2 15:6; Isa 27:11; Zac 8:10; Rev 6:4 Jeremiah 16:6”

“The command not to go into a house of mourning (מרזח, loud crying, cry of lament for one dead, see on Amo 6:7), not to show sympathy with the survivors, is explained by the Lord in the fearfully solemn saying: I withdraw from this people my peace, grace, and mercy. שׁלום is not "the inviolateness of the relation between me and my people" (Graf), but the pace of God which rested on Judah, the source of its well-being, of its life and prosperity, and which showed itself to the sinful race in the extension to them of grace and mercy. The consequence of the withdrawal of this peace is the death of great and small in such multitudes that they can neither be buried nor mourned for ( Jer 16:6).…”