Jeremiah 16:2

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

‘Do not marry or have sons or daughters in this place.

Cross References

Luke 23:29

Look, the days are coming   when they will say, “Blessed are the women without children, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never fed! ”

Luke 21:23

Woe to pregnant women and nursing mothers in those days,   for there will be great distress in the land   and wrath against this people.

Genesis 19:14

So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were going to marry his daughters. ‘Get up,’ he said. ‘Get out of this place, for the Lord is about to destroy the city! ’  But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.

Matthew 24:19

Woe to pregnant women and nursing mothers in those days!

Jeremiah 16:1

The word of the Lord came to me:

Jeremiah 16:3

For this is what the Lord says concerning sons and daughters born in this place as well as concerning the mothers who bear them and the fathers who father them in this land:

Jeremiah 29:6

Find wives for yourselves, and have sons and daughters. Find wives for your sons and give your daughters to men in marriage so that they may bear sons and daughters. Multiply there; do not decrease.

Lamentations 2:22

You summon those who terrorise me  on every side, as if for an appointed festival day; on the day of the  Lord’s anger no one escaped or survived. My enemy has destroyed those I nurtured  and brought up.