Jeremiah 16:2

WEB

²“You shall not take a wife, neither shall you have sons or daughters, in this place.”

KJV

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

BSB

²“You must not marry or have sons or daughters in this place.”

FBV

²Don't marry or have children here.

Extra References

Luke 21:23

²³Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who nurse infants in those days! For there will be great distress in the land and wrath to this people.

¹⁴Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters, and said, “Get up! Get out of this place, for the LORD will destroy the city!” But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking.

Luke 23:29

²⁹For behold, the days are coming in which they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.’

1 Corinthians 7:26-27

²⁶Therefore I think that because of the distress that is on us, it’s good for a man to remain as he is. ²⁷Are you bound to a wife? Don’t seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife? Don’t seek a wife.

Matthew 24:19

¹⁹But woe to those who are with child and to nursing mothers in those days!