Jeremiah 16:2

Good News Translation

“Do not marry or have children in a place like this.

Cross References

Genesis 19:14

Then Lot went to the men that his daughters were going to marry, and said, “Hurry up and get out of here; the Lord is going to destroy this place.” But they thought he was joking.

Jeremiah 16:1

Again the Lord spoke to me and said,

Jeremiah 16:3

I will tell you what is going to happen to the children who are born here and to their parents.

Jeremiah 29:6

Marry and have children. Then let your children get married, so that they also may have children. You must increase in numbers and not decrease.

Lamentations 2:22

You invited my enemies to hold a carnival of terror all around me, And no one could escape on that day of your anger. They murdered my children, whom I had raised and loved.

Matthew 24:19

How terrible it will be in those days for women who are pregnant and for mothers with little babies!

Luke 21:23

How terrible it will be in those days for women who are pregnant and for mothers with little babies! Terrible distress will come upon this land, and God's punishment will fall on this people.

Luke 23:29

For the days are coming when people will say, ‘How lucky are the women who never had children, who never bore babies, who never nursed them!’