Jeremiah 16:2
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“You must not marry or have sons or daughters in this place.”
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So Lot went out and spoke to the sons-in-law who were pledged in marriage to his daughters. “Get up,” he said. “Get out of this place, for the LORD is about to destroy the city!” But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.
How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers! For there will be great distress upon the land and wrath against this people.
Look, the days are coming when people will say, ‘Blessed are the barren women, the wombs that never bore, and breasts that never nursed!’
How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers!