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 sea-monsters draw out the breast, they nurse their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
Lamentations 2:20
Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?
2 Kings 6:26
And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman 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? yes, they may forget, yet I will not forget thee.

In

Lamentations 3:48
My eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Deuteronomy 28:56
The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil towards the husband of her bosom, and towards her son, and towards her daughter,
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 hath hid her son.

General references

Matthew 24:19
And woe to them that are with child, and to them that nurse infants in those days!
Mark 13:17
But woe to them that are with child, and to them that nurse infants in those days.