The Meaning of Jeremiah 16:8 Explained

Jeremiah 16:8

KJV: Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting, 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,

Darby: And thou shalt 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.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

Thou shalt not also go  into the house  of feasting,  to sit  with them to eat  and to drink. 

What does Jeremiah 16:8 Mean?

Verse Meaning

Neither was Jeremiah to attend joyful celebrations or eat and drink with merrymakers. This would have included participating in wedding celebrations (cf. Jeremiah 7:34; Jeremiah 25:10; Jeremiah 33:11). Jeremiah"s failure to fulfill social obligations, such as attending weddings and funerals, would have made him even more an object of social disgrace.

Chapter Summary: Jeremiah 16

1  The prophet, under the types of abstaining from marriage,
8  from houses of mourning and feasting, foreshows the utter ruin of the Jews;
10  because they were worse than their fathers
14  Their return from captivity shall be stranger than their deliverance out of Egypt
16  God will doubly recompense their idolatry

What do the individual words in Jeremiah 16:8 mean?

And the house of feasting not you shall go into to sit with them to eat and drink -
וּבֵית־ מִשְׁתֶּ֥ה לֹא־ תָב֖וֹא לָשֶׁ֣בֶת אוֹתָ֑ם לֶאֱכֹ֖ל וְלִשְׁתּֽוֹת ס

וּבֵית־  And  the  house 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Noun, masculine singular construct
Root: בַּיִת 
Sense: house.
מִשְׁתֶּ֥ה  of  feasting 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: מִשְׁתֶּה  
Sense: feast, drink, banquet.
תָב֖וֹא  you  shall  go  into 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, second person masculine singular
Root: בֹּוא 
Sense: to go in, enter, come, go, come in.
לָשֶׁ֣בֶת  to  sit 
Parse: Preposition-l, Verb, Qal, Infinitive construct
Root: יָשַׁב 
Sense: to dwell, remain, sit, abide.
אוֹתָ֑ם  with  them 
Parse: Preposition, third person masculine plural
Root: אֵת 
Sense: with, near, together with.
לֶאֱכֹ֖ל  to  eat 
Parse: Preposition-l, Verb, Qal, Infinitive construct
Root: אָכַל  
Sense: to eat, devour, burn up, feed.
וְלִשְׁתּֽוֹת  and  drink 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l, Verb, Qal, Infinitive construct
Root: שָׁתָה  
Sense: to drink.
ס  - 
Parse: Punctuation