Lamentations 4:10
The hands of merciful women have boiled their own children, || They have been for food to them, || In the destruction of the daughter of my people.
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Deuteronomy 28:53And you have eaten the fruit of your body, [the] flesh of your sons and your daughters (whom your God YHWH has given to you), in the siege and in the constriction with which your enemies constrict you.
2 Kings 6:29and we boil my son and eat him, and I say to her on the next day, Give your son, and we eat him; and she hides her son.”
Isaiah 49:15“Does a woman forget her suckling, || The loved one—the son of her womb? Indeed, these forget—but I do not forget you.
Lamentations 2:20See, O YHWH, and look attentively, || To whom You have acted thus, || Do women eat their fruit, infants of a handbreadth? Slain in the sanctuary of the Lord are priest and prophet?
Lamentations 4:3Even dragons have drawn out the breast, || They have suckled their young ones, || The daughter of my people has become cruel, || Like the ostriches in a wilderness.
Matthew Henry on Lamentations 4:2-13
Desolate Condition of Jerusalem; Effects of Famine in Jerusalem; Destruction of Jerusalem. ( b. c. 588.) 1 How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street. 2 The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter! 3 Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches… Read the whole commentary →