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
Even the jackals draw out the breast; they give suck to their young ones. The daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
Lamentations 2:20
See, O LORD, and behold to whom thou have done thus! Shall the women eat their fruit, the sons who are dandled in the hands? Shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of LORD?
2 Kings 6:26
And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, a woman cried out to him, saying, Help, my lord, O king.

Pitiful

Isaiah 49:15
Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yea, these may forget, yet I will not forget thee.

In

Lamentations 3:48
My eye runs down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Deuteronomy 28:56
The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her
2 Kings 6:29
So we boiled my son, and ate him. And I said to her on the next day, Give thy son that we may eat him. And she has hid her son.

General references

Matthew 24:19
And woe to those who have in the womb and to those who suckle in those days.
Mark 13:17
But woe to those who have in the womb, and to those who suckle in those days.