Verse 2

Jeremiah 16:2

Literal Standard Version

2 “You do not take a wife to yourself, || Nor do you have sons and daughters in this place.”

Original Language Text

hebrew

לֹֽא תִקַּ֥ח לְ/ךָ֖ אִשָּׁ֑ה וְ/לֹֽא יִהְי֤וּ לְ/ךָ֙ בָּנִ֣ים וּ/בָנ֔וֹת בַּ/מָּק֖וֹם הַ/זֶּֽה

English Translation

You shall not take a wife for yourself, and there shall not be for you sons and daughters in this place.

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Chapter 16 Context

1 And there is a word of YHWH to me, saying, Focus ↗

2 “You do not take a wife to yourself, || Nor do you have sons and daughters in this place.”

3 For thus said YHWH, || Of the sons and of the daughters who are born in this place, || And of their... Focus ↗

4 “They die painful deaths, || They are not lamented, nor are they buried, || For they are dung on the... Focus ↗

5 For thus said YHWH: “Do not enter the house of a mourning-feast, || Nor go to lament nor bemoan for... Focus ↗

6 And great and small have died in this land, || They are not buried, and none lament for them, || Nor... Focus ↗

7 Nor do they deal out to them for mourning, || To comfort him concerning the dead, || Nor cause them... Focus ↗

8 You do not enter a house of banqueting, || To sit with them, to eat and to drink,” Focus ↗

9 For thus said YHWH of Hosts, God (Elohim) of Israel: “Behold, I am causing to cease from this place,... Focus ↗

10 And it has come to pass, || When you declare all these words to this people, || And they have said t... Focus ↗

11 Then you have said to them: Because that your fathers have forsaken Me, || A declaration of YHWH, ||... Focus ↗

12 You also have done evil above your fathers, || And behold, you are each walking after the stubbornne... Focus ↗

13 And I have cast you from off this land, || On to a land that you have not known, || You and your fat... Focus ↗

14 Therefore, behold, days are coming,” || A declaration of YHWH, || “And it is not said anymore, || YH... Focus ↗

15 But, YHWH lives, who brought up the sons of Israel out of the land of the north, || And out of all t... Focus ↗

16 Behold, I am sending for many fishers,” || A declaration of YHWH, || “And they have fished them, ||... Focus ↗

17 For My eyes are on all their ways, || They have not been hidden from My face, || Nor has their iniqu... Focus ↗

18 And I have repaid a first—A second time—their iniquity and their sin, || Because of their defiling M... Focus ↗

19 O YHWH, my strength, and my fortress, || And my refuge in a day of adversity, || Nations come to You... Focus ↗

20 Does man make gods for himself, || And they—no gods? Focus ↗

21 “Therefore, behold, I am causing them to know at this time, || I cause them to know My hand and My m... Focus ↗

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