Deuteronomy 28:18
18Cursed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock.Jeremiah 16:2-4
2“You shall not take a wife, nor shall you have sons or daughters in this place. 3For thus says the Lord concerning the sons and daughters who are born in this place, and concerning the mothers who bore them and the fathers who fathered them in this land: 4 aThey shall die of deadly diseases. bThey shall not be lamented, nor shall they be buried. cThey shall be as dung on the surface of the ground. dThey shall perish by the sword and by famine, eand their dead bodies shall be food for the birds of the air and for the beasts of the earth.Hosea 9:12-16
12 fEven if they bring up children,I will bereave them till none is left.
gWoe to them
when hI depart from them!
13Ephraim, ias I have seen, was like a young palm ▼
▼Or like Tyre
planted in a meadow;but kEphraim must lead his children out to slaughter. ▼
▼Hebrew to him who slaughters
14Give them, O Lord—
what will you give?
Give them ma miscarrying womb
and dry breasts.
15 Every evil of theirs is in nGilgal;
there I began to hate them.
Because of the wickedness of their deeds
I will drive them out of my house.
I will love them no more;
all otheir princes are prebels.
16 Ephraim is stricken;
qtheir root is dried up;
they shall bear no fruit.
Even rthough they give birth,
sI will put their beloved children to death.
Luke 23:29-30
29For behold, tthe days are coming when they will say, u‘Blessed are the barren and the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!’ 30 vThen they will begin to say to the mountains, ‘Fall on us,’ and to the hills, ‘Cover us.’
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