Lamentations 4:10

The hands of compassionate women have boiled their own children; 1 they became their food during the time 1 when the daughter of my people was being destroyed. 1

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The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

In Context

9Those who have been killed by the sword were happier than those killed by hunger, 1 who wasted away, pierced by the lack of any harvest from the field. 1

11Yahweh showed all his wrath; he poured out his fierce anger. 1 He kindled a fire in Zion that consumed her foundations. 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:53You will eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, whom Yahweh your God gave you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies will put upon you.

2 Kings 6:29So we boiled my son and ate him, and I said to her on the next day, “Give your son that we may eat him, but she has hidden her son.”

Isaiah 49:15“Can a woman forget her baby, nursing at her breast, so she does not have compassion on the son she has borne? 1 Yes, they may forget, but I will not forget you. 1

Lamentations 2:20See, Yahweh, and consider those you have dealt in this way. 1 Should women eat the fruit of their wombs, the children whom they have cared for? 1 Should priest and prophet be slaughtered in the sanctuary of the Lord? 1

Lamentations 4:3Even the jackals offer the breast to nurse their cubs, but 1 the daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the desert. 1

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 →

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