Jeremiah 16:4

grievous deaths lit. as mg. deaths of sicknesses.

they shall not be lamented, neither shall they be buried We may compare the condition of things in the plague at Athens b.c. 430: "Such was the state of dismay and sorrow, that even the nearest relatives neglected the sepulchral duties … the dead and dying lay piled upon one another not merely in the public roads, but even in the temples.… Those bodies which escaped entire neglect were burnt or buried without the customary mourning and with unseemly carelessness." Grote's Hist. of Greece, ch. 49. See Thucyd. II. 52.