Jeremiah 16:2

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Thou shalt not take thee a wife neither shalt thou have sons and daughters in this place.

Cross References

Luke 23:29

For behold, the days shall come, wherein they will say: Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that have not borne, and the paps that have not given suck.

Luke 21:23

But woe to them that are with child, and give suck in those days; for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.

Genesis 19:14

So Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law that were to have his daughters, and said: Arise: get you out of this place, because the Lord will destroy this city. And he seemed to them to speak as it were in jest.

Matthew 24:19

And woe to them that are with child, and that give suck in those days.

Jeremiah 16:1

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

Jeremiah 16:3

For thus saith the Lord, concerning the sons and daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bore them, and concerning their fathers of whom they were born in this land:

Jeremiah 29:6

Take ye wives and beget sons and daughters: and take wives for your sons and give your daughters to husbands, and let them bear sons and daughters: and be ye multiplied there, and be not few in number.

Lamentations 2:22

Thau. Thou hast called as to a festival those that should terrify me round about, and there was none in the day of the wrath of the Lord that escaped and was left: those that I brought up and nourished, my enemy hath consumed them.