Both the great and the small shall die in this land] Or, Be they great or small that die. they shall not be buried] No regard in this kind shall be had of great ones more then of the meanest. neither shall men lament for them] Or, nor shall lamentation be made for them. Chap. 22. 18. nor, &c.] They shall use none of these outward expressions of mourning for the dead; or of comforting their friends. Vers. 7. Chap. 47. 5. cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them] Courses usually in such cases, among heathen, and Jewish people also imitating them: but by God fordid den. Leviticus 19:28. Deuteronomy 14:1.