Lamentations 4:10

י YodThe hands of compassionate women
have cooked their own children;
they became their food
during the destruction of my dear people.

Lamentations 2:20

ר ReshLord, look and consider
who You have done this to.
Should women eat their own children,
the infants they have nurtured?
Should priests and prophets
be killed in the Lord’s sanctuary?

Isaiah 49:15

“Can a woman forget her nursing child,
or lack compassion for the child of her womb?
Even if these forget,
yet I will not forget you.

Jeremiah 19:9

I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and their daughters, and they will eat each other’s flesh in the siege and distress that their enemies, those who want to take their life, inflict on them.

Leviticus 26:29

You will eat the flesh of your sons; you will eat the flesh of your daughters.

Deuteronomy 28:53-57

“You will eat your children, the flesh of your sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you during the siege and hardship your enemy imposes on you.

2 Kings 6:26-29

As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, “My lord the king, help!”

Lamentations 3:48

My eyes flow with streams of tears
because of the destruction of my dear people.

Lamentations 4:3

ג GimelEven jackals offer their breasts
to nurse their young,
but my dear people have become cruel
like ostriches in the wilderness.

Ezekiel 5:10

As a result, fathers will eat their sons within Jerusalem, and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments against you and scatter all your survivors to every direction of the wind.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Pitiful

General references

Bible References

Hands

Lamentations 4:3
ג GimelEven jackals offer their breasts
to nurse their young,
but my dear people have become cruel
like ostriches in the wilderness.
Lamentations 2:20
ר ReshLord, look and consider
who You have done this to.
Should women eat their own children,
the infants they have nurtured?
Should priests and prophets
be killed in the Lord’s sanctuary?
2 Kings 6:26
As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, “My lord the king, help!”

Pitiful

Isaiah 49:15
“Can a woman forget her nursing child,
or lack compassion for the child of her womb?
Even if these forget,
yet I will not forget you.

In

Lamentations 3:48
My eyes flow with streams of tears
because of the destruction of my dear people.
Deuteronomy 28:56
The most sensitive and refined woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because of her refinement and sensitivity, will begrudge the husband she embraces, her son, and her daughter,
2 Kings 6:29
So we boiled my son and ate him, and I said to her the next day, ‘Give up your son, and we will eat him,’ but she has hidden her son.”

General references

Matthew 24:19
Woe to pregnant women and nursing mothers in those days!
Mark 13:17
Woe to pregnant women and nursing mothers in those days!

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