💧WEB · Jeremiah 16:2
What does Jeremiah 16:2 mean?
"“You shall not take a wife, neither shall you have sons or daughters, in this place.”"
— Jeremiah 16:2 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
Yahweh’s word came also to me, saying,
“You shall not take a wife, neither shall you have sons or daughters, in this place.”
For Yahweh says concerning the sons and concerning the daughters who are born in this place, and concerning their mothers who bore them, and concerning their fathers who became their father in this land:
“They will die grievous deaths: they will not be lamented, neither will they be buried. They will be as dung on the surface of the ground. They will be consumed by the sword and by famine. Their dead bodies will be food for the birds of the sky and for the animals of the earth.”
For Yahweh says, “Don’t enter into the house of mourning. Don’t go to lament. Don’t bemoan them, for I have taken away my peace from this people,” says Yahweh, “even loving kindness and tender mercies.
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