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 jackals offer the breast; they nurse their young, but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
Lamentations 2:20
Look, O LORD, and see! With whom have you dealt thus? Should women eat the fruit of their womb, the children of their tender care? Should priest and prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
2 Kings 6:26
Now as the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, saying, "Help, my lord, O king!"

Pitiful

Isaiah 49:15
"Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you.

In

Lamentations 3:48
my eyes flow with rivers of tears because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Deuteronomy 28:56
The most tender and refined woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because she is so delicate and tender, will begrudge to the husband she embraces, to her son and to her daughter,
2 Kings 6:29
So we boiled my son and ate him. And on the next day I said to her, 'Give your son, that we may eat him.' But she has hidden her son."

General references

Matthew 24:19
And alas for women who are pregnant and for those who are nursing infants in those days!
Mark 13:17
And alas for women who are pregnant and for those who are nursing infants in those days!

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