Jeremiah 16:2

Catholic Public Domain Version

"You shall not take a wife, and there shall be no sons or daughters for you in this place.

Cross References

Genesis 19:14

And so Lot, going out, spoke to his sons-in-law, who were going to receive his daughters, and he said: "Rise up. Depart from this place. For the Lord will destroy this city." And it seemed to them that he was speaking playfully.

Jeremiah 16:1

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

Jeremiah 16:3

For thus says the Lord concerning the sons and daughters who are conceived in this place, and concerning their mothers who give birth to them, and concerning their fathers, from whose stock they have been born in this land:

Jeremiah 29:6

Take wives, and conceive sons and daughters. And give wives to your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, and let them bear sons and daughters. And be multiplied there, and do not choose to be few in number.

Lamentations 2:22

THAU. You have called, as if to a day of solemnity, those who would terrify me all around. And there was no one, in the day of the fury of the Lord, who escaped or was left behind. Those whom I educated and nourished, my enemy has consumed.

Matthew 24:19

So then, woe to those who are pregnant or nursing in those days.

Luke 21:23

Then woe to those who are pregnant or nursing in those days. For there will be great distress upon the land and great wrath upon this people.

Luke 23:29

For behold, the days will arrive in which they will say, 'Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that have not borne, and the breasts that have not nursed.'