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.
to nurse their young,
but my dear people have become cruel
like ostriches
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?
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.
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.
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!