² Thou dost not take to thee a wife, Nor hast thou sons and daughters in this place.

²⁶ I suppose, therefore, this to be good because of the present necessity, that `it is' good for a man that the matter be thus: --

²⁷ Hast thou been bound to a wife? seek not to be loosed; hast thou been loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

¹⁴ And Lot goeth out, and speaketh unto his sons-in-law, those taking his daughters, and saith, `Rise, go out from this place, for Jehovah is destroying the city;' and he is as `one' mocking in the eyes of his sons-in-law.

²³ `And wo to those with child, and to those giving suck, in those days; for there shall be great distress on the land, and wrath on this people;

²⁹ for, lo, days do come, in which they shall say, Happy the barren, and wombs that did not bare, and paps that did not give suck;

¹⁹ `And wo to those with child, and to those giving suck in those days;