No one will offer a meal to comfort those who mourn for the dead—not even at the death of a mother or father. No one will send a cup of wine to console them.
Parallel translations
- WEB neither shall men break bread 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.
- KJV Neither shall men tear 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.
- BSB No food will be offered to comfort those who mourn the dead; not even a cup of consolation will be given for the loss of a father or mother.
- NKJV Nor shall men break bread in mourning for them, to comfort them for the dead; nor shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or their mother.
- NASB People will not break bread in mourning for them, to comfort anyone for the dead, nor give them a cup of consolation to drink for anyone’s father or mother.
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Quick answer
No one will offer the mourning meal or the cup of consolation to comfort those grieving a father or mother. Even the basic gestures of shared comfort will vanish under the weight of judgment.
Overview
The customs of bringing food and drink to mourners expressed community and consolation, but these too will cease. Their absence pictures a society so broken by judgment that even mutual comfort fails. This bleak scene magnifies the comfort God Himself gives in Christ, the God of all comfort who consoles His people in every affliction (2 Corinthians 1:3-4).
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Cross-references · 5
- Hos 9:4They won’t pour out wine offerings to Yahweh, neither will they be pleasing to him. Their sacrifices will be to them like the bread of mourners; all who eat of it will be polluted; for their bread will be for their appetite. It will not come into Yahweh’s house.
- Ezek 24:17Sigh, but not aloud, make no mourning for the dead; bind your headdress on you, and put your shoes on your feet, and don’t cover your lips, and don’t eat men’s bread.
- Deut 26:14I have not eaten of it in my mourning, neither have I removed any of it while I was unclean, nor given of it for the dead. I have listened to Yahweh my God’s voice. I have done according to all that you have commanded me.
- Job 42:11Then came there to him all his brothers, and all his sisters, and all those who had been of his acquaintance before, and ate bread with him in his house. They comforted him, and consoled him concerning all the evil that Yahweh had brought on him. Everyone also gave him a piece of money, and everyone a ring of gold.
- Prov 31:6–7Give strong drink to him who is ready to perish; and wine to the bitter in soul:
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