“Both great and small will die in this land. They will not be buried. Men won’t lament for them, cut themselves, or make themselves bald for them.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Jeremiah 16 contains 21 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.