The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people. Cross References Leviticus 26:29You will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters. Deuteronomy 28:53 During the siege and hardship your enemy will impose on you, you will eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your sons and daughters the LORD your God has given you. Deuteronomy 28:56 The most gentle and refined woman among you, so gentle and refined she would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground, will begrudge the husband she embraces and her son and daughter Deuteronomy 28:57 the afterbirth that comes from between her legs and the children she bears, because she will secretly eat them for lack of anything else in the siege and dire straits your enemy will impose on you in all your cities. 2 Kings 6:29 So we boiled my son and ate him, and the next day I said to her, 'Give up your son, and we will eat him.' But she has hidden her son." 2 Kings 25:3 By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food. Jeremiah 19:9 I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another's flesh in the siege and distress inflicted on them by their enemies who seek their lives.' Lamentations 2:11 My eyes fail from weeping; I am churning within. My heart is poured out in grief over the destruction of the daughter of my people, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city. Lamentations 2:20 Look, O LORD, and consider: Whom have You ever treated like this? Should women eat their offspring, the infants they have nurtured? Should priests and prophets be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord? Ezekiel 5:10 As a result, fathers among you will eat their sons, and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments against you and scatter all your remnant to every wind.' Chapter Outline 1. Zion bewails her pitiful estate13. She confesses her sins 21. Edom is threatened and Zion comforted. Jump to Previous Boiled Boiling Children Compassion Compassionate Cooked Daughter Destroyed Destruction Food Full Hands Kind-Hearted Meat Merciful Pitiful Ruin Sodden WomenJump to Next Boiled Boiling Children Compassion Compassionate Cooked Daughter Destroyed Destruction Food Full Hands Kind-Hearted Meat Merciful Pitiful Ruin Sodden Women |
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