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 jackals draw out the breast, they nurse their young ones: The daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
Lamentations 2:20
Look, Yahweh, and see to whom you have done thus! Shall the women eat their fruit, the children that are dandled in the hands? Shall the priest and the prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
2 Kings 6:26
As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried to him, saying, "Help, my lord, O king!"
Pitiful
Isaiah 49:15
"Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you!
In
Lamentations 3:48
My eye runs down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Deuteronomy 28:56
The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not adventure to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,
2 Kings 6:29
So we boiled my son, and ate him: and I said to her on the next day, 'Give your son, that we may eat him;' and she has hidden her son."
General references
Matthew 24:19
But woe to those who are with child and to nursing mothers in those days!
Mark 13:17
But woe to those who are with child and to those who nurse babies in those days!