Jeremiah 16:2

The Message

“Jeremiah, don’t get married. Don’t raise a family here. I have signed the death warrant on all the children born in this country, the mothers who bear them and the fathers who beget them—an epidemic of death. Death unlamented, the dead unburied, dead bodies decomposing and stinking like dung, all the killed and starved corpses served up as meals for carrion crows and mongrel dogs!”

Cross References

Genesis 19:14

Lot went out and warned the fiancés of his daughters, “Evacuate this place; God is about to destroy this city!” But his daughters’ would-be husbands treated it as a joke.

Jeremiah 16:1

God’s Message to me:

Jeremiah 29:6

“Marry and have children. Encourage your children to marry and have children so that you’ll thrive in that country and not waste away.

Lamentations 2:22

“You invited, like friends to a party, men to swoop down in attack so that on the big day of God’s wrath no one would get away. The children I loved and reared—gone, gone, gone.”