2 Kings 6:29 - The Scriptures 2009 “So we cooked my son, and ate him. And I said to her on the next day, ‘Give your son and let us eat him.’ But she has hidden her son.” Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she hath hid her son. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition So we boiled my son and ate him. The next day I said to her, Give your son so we may eat him, but she had hidden her son. American Standard Version (1901) So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him; and she hath hid her son. Common English Bible So we cooked and ate my son. The next day I said to her, ‘Hand over your son so we can eat him.’ But she had hidden her son.” Catholic Public Domain Version Therefore, we cooked my son, and we ate him. And I said to her on the next day, 'Give your son, so that we may eat him.' But she concealed her son." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version 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. |
And the woman whose son was living spoke to the sovereign, for she was overcome with compassion for her son. And she said, “O my master, give her the living child, and by no means kill him!” But the other said, “Let him be neither mine nor yours, but divide him.”
“Would a woman forget her nursing child, and not have compassion on the son of her womb? Though they forget, I never forget you.
“As one whom his mother comforts, so I comfort you. And in Yerushalayim you are comforted.”
The hands of the compassionate women Have boiled their own children; They became food for them In the destruction of the daughter of my people.
‘And if in spite of this, you do not obey Me, but walk contrary to Me,
‘And you shall eat the flesh of your sons, and eat the flesh of your daughters.
“And they shall besiege you at all your gates till your high and fenced walls, in which you are trusting, come down in all your land. And they shall besiege you at all your gates in all your land which יהוה your Elohim has given you.
“And you shall eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and your daughters whom יהוה your Elohim has given you, in the siege and distress in which your enemies distress you.
and against her seed which comes out from between her feet, and her children whom she bears, for she eats them in secret for lack of all, in the siege and distress with which your enemy distresses you in all your gates.