Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 16:6

6 Both the great and the small, shall die in this land: they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them , nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them .

There shall so many of all rankes and sizes die in this land, that men shall have no time to bury them, or there shall not be enough left living to bury the dead, nor shall men, for their own miseries have leisure to lament for the miseries of other men.

Cutting themselves in their flesh, and cutting off their hair were Pagan Customs, which God forbad his own people, but yet it should seem they practised these barbarous Customs, but saith God, I will put an end to that practice, men shall die so fast and in such multitudes, as they shall have no leisure to cut themselves for such as are dead, they shall not have such solemn mournings as they have had.

Marginal references: Lev. 19.[illegible: 2 letters]. Deut. 14.1.; Isa. 22.12.