Jeremiah 19:9
I will make them take the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters for food, they will be making a meal of one another, because of their bitter need and the cruel grip of their haters and those who have made designs against their life.
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10Then let the potter's bottle be broken before the eyes of the men who have gone with you,
Cross References
Leviticus 26:29Then you will take the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters for food;
2 Kings 6:26And when the king of Israel was going by on the wall, a woman came crying out to him, and said, Help! my lord king.
Isaiah 9:20On the right a man was cutting off bits and was still in need; on the left a man took a meal but had not enough; no man had pity on his brother; every man was making a meal of the flesh of his neighbour.
Lamentations 2:20Look! O Lord, see to whom you have done this! Are the women to take as their food the fruit of their bodies, the children who are folded in their arms? are the priest and the prophet to be put to death in the holy place of the Lord?
Ezekiel 5:10For this cause fathers will take their sons for food among you, and sons will make a meal of their fathers; and I will be judge among you, and all the rest of you I will send away to every wind.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 19:2-10
The Desolation of Jerusalem. ( b. c. 600.) 1 Thus saith the Lord , Go and get a potter's earthen bottle, and take of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests; 2 And go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the east gate, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell thee, 3 And say, Hear ye the word of the Lord , O kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem; Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, the which… Read the whole commentary →