Jeremiah 16:2-4

New Catholic Bible

² You shall not take to yourself a wife or have sons and daughters in this place. ³ For thus says the Lord concerning the sons and daughters who are born in this place, and about the mothers who give birth to them and the fathers who beget them in this land: ⁴ They shall perish from deadly diseases. Unlamented and unburied, they will be like dung spread over the ground. They will perish by sword and by famine, and their corpses will serve as food for the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth.