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 wild animals nurse, suckling their young; but the women of my people are cruel, like ostriches in the wilderness.
Lamentations 2:20
Look, LORD, and take note: To whom have you done this? Should women eat their offspring, the children they have cuddled? Should priests and prophets be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?
2 Kings 6:26
While the king of Israel was walking along the city wall, a woman cried out to him. "Help me, your majesty!" she said.

Pitiful

Isaiah 49:15
"Can a woman forget her nursing child, or have no compassion for the child of her womb? Even these mothers may forget; But as for me, I'll never forget you!

In

Lamentations 3:48
My eyes run with rivers of tears over the destruction of my cherished people.
Deuteronomy 28:56
The most tender and sensitive lady among you, who doesn't venture to touch the soles of her feet to the ground on account of her daintiness, will look with hostility in her eyes against her beloved husband, her sons, and her daughters.
2 Kings 6:29
She said, "This woman told me, "Give up your son, and we'll eat him today, and we'll eat your son tomorrow.'" So we boiled my son and ate him. The next day, I told her, "Give me your son so we can eat him!' But she has hidden her son!"

General references

Matthew 24:19
"How terrible it will be for women who are pregnant or who are nursing babies in those days!
Mark 13:17
"How terrible it will be for women who are pregnant or who are nursing babies in those days!

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