Jeremiah 16:2-4

Contemporary English Version

² Jeremiah, don't get married and have children—Judah is no place to raise a family. ³ I'll tell you what's going to happen to children and their parents here. ⁴ They will die of horrible diseases and of war and starvation. No one will give them a funeral or bury them, and their bodies will be food for the birds and wild animals. And what's left will lie on the ground like manure.