Jeremiah 16:2

The Passion Translation

“You are not to marry or have children in this land.

Cross References

Genesis 19:14

So Lot went out to find the two men who were pledged to marry his daughters and told them, “Hurry, leave the city, for Yahweh is about to destroy it!” But they thought he was only joking and paid him no attention.

Jeremiah 16:1

Yahweh spoke to me again and said:

Jeremiah 16:3

For this is what I, Yahweh, have to say concerning any children that may be born in this place and concerning their mothers and fathers in this land:

Jeremiah 29:6

Get married and have children; encourage your sons and daughters to get married and raise families. Flourish in your captivity, for you must increase and not decrease.

Lamentations 2:22

“You invited terror as if to a festival, to attack me from all sides. On the day of Yahweh’s anger, none escaped and none survived. All whom I cherished and reared have been annihilated by the enemy.”

Matthew 24:19

It will be especially hard for pregnant women and for those nursing their babies in those days.

Luke 21:23

It will be extremely difficult for pregnant women and for those nursing little ones in that day, for great persecution and wrath will rise against this nation.

Luke 23:29

The day is coming when it will not be the women with children who are blessed but those who are childless. Then you will say, ‘The barren women are the most fortunate! Those who have never given birth and never nursed a child—they are more fortunate than we, for they will never see their children put to death!’