Jeremiah 16:2 - New International Version (Anglicised)

² ‘You must not marry and have sons or daughters in this place.’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters in this place.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² You shall not take a wife or have sons and daughters in this place [Jerusalem].

American Standard Version (1901)

² Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters, in this place.

Common English Bible

² Don’t marry or have children in this place.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² "You shall not take a wife, and there shall be no sons or daughters for you in this place.

Jeremiah 16:2 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 19:14

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

Jeremiah 16:1

Then the word of the Lord came to me:

Jeremiah 16:3

For this is what the Lord says about the sons and daughters born in this land and about the women who are their mothers and the men who are their fathers:

Jeremiah 29:6

Marry and have sons and daughters; find wives for your sons and give your daughters in marriage, so that they too may have sons and daughters. Increase in number there; do not decrease.

Lamentations 2:22

‘As you summon to a feast day, so you summoned against me terrors on every side. In the day of the Lord’s anger no-one escaped or survived; those I cared for and reared my enemy has destroyed.’

Matthew 24:19

How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers!

Luke 21:23

How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers! There will be great distress in the land and wrath against this people.

Luke 23:29

For the time will come when you will say, “Blessed are the childless women, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!”