Jeremiah 16:8
Good News Translation
"Do not enter a house where people are feasting. Do not sit down with them to eat and drink.

New Revised Standard Version
You shall not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and drink.

Contemporary English Version
Don't even set foot in a house where there is eating and drinking and celebrating.

New American Bible
Do not enter a house of feasting to sit eating and drinking with them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And do not thou go into the house of feasting, to sit with them, and to eat and drink:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And do not thou go into the house of feasting, to sit with them, and to eat and drink:

Jeremiah 15:17 I sat not in the assembly of jesters, nor did I make a boast of the presence of thy hand: I sat alone, because thou hast filled me with threats.

Psalm 26:4 I have not sat with the council of vanity: neither will I go in with the doers of unjust things.

Ecclesiastes 7:2-4 It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to the house of feasting: for in that we are put in mind of the end of all, and the living thinketh what is to come. . . .

Isaiah 22:12-14 And the Lord, the God of hosts, in that day shall call to weeping, and to mourning, to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth: . . .

Amos 6:4-6 You that sleep upon beds of ivory, and are wanton on your couches: that eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the herd; . . .

Matthew 24:38 For, as in the days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, even till that day in which Noe entered into the ark:

Luke 17:27-29 They did eat and drink, they married wives and were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark and the flood came and destroyed them all. . . .

1 Corinthians 5:11 But now I have written to you, not to keep company, if any man that is named a brother be a fornicator or covetous or a server of idols or a railer or a drunkard or an extortioner: with such a one, not so much as to eat.

Ephesians 5:11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness: but rather reprove them.

Context
Disaster Predicted
7And they shall not break bread among them to him that mourneth, to comfort him for the dead: neither shall they give them for their father and mother. 8And do not thou go into the house of feasting, to sit with them, and to eat and drink:9For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold I will take away out of this place in your sight, and in your days the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride.…
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 7:2
It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to the house of feasting: for in that we are put in mind of the end of all, and the living thinketh what is to come.

Isaiah 22:12
And the Lord, the God of hosts, in that day shall call to weeping, and to mourning, to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:

Jeremiah 15:17
I sat not in the assembly of jesters, nor did I make a boast of the presence of thy hand: I sat alone, because thou hast filled me with threats.

Amos 6:4
You that sleep upon beds of ivory, and are wanton on your couches: that eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the herd;

Jeremiah 16:7
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