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 jackal bears the beast and nurses their cubs; [but] the daughter of my people has become ruthless, like ostriches in the wilderness.
Lamentations 2:20
See, Yahweh, and take note! With whom have you dealt thus? Should women eat their young children of tender care? Should priest and prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?
2 Kings 6:26
It happened that the king of Israel [was] crossing over on the wall, and a woman called out to him, saying, "Help, my lord the king!"
Pitiful
Isaiah 49:15
Can a woman forget her suckling, [refrain] from having compassion on the child of her womb? Indeed, these may forget, but I, I will not forget you!
In
Lamentations 3:48
Channels of water run down my eyes because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Deuteronomy 28:56
The most refined and the [most] delicate [woman] among you, who shall not venture to put the sole of her foot on the ground from being [so] delicate and from [such] gentleness, {shall be mean to her beloved husband} and against her son and against her daughter,
2 Kings 6:29
So we cooked my son and ate him, and I said to her the next day, 'Give your son that we may eat him.' But she had hidden her son."
General references
Matthew 24:19
And woe to those {who are pregnant} and to those who are nursing [their babies] in those days!
Mark 13:17
And woe to those {who are pregnant} and to those who are nursing [their babies] in those days!