Jeremiah 19:9

Contemporary English Version 1995

And while your enemies are trying to break through your city walls to kill you, the food supply will run out. You will become so hungry that you will eat the flesh of your friends and even of your own children.

Cross References

Isaiah 9:20

like wild animals attacking and eating everyone around them, even their own relatives. But still they were not satisfied.

Lamentations 4:10

Life in the city is so bad that loving mothers have boiled and eaten their own children.

Leviticus 26:29

In fact, you will be so desperate for food that you will eat your own children.

Ezekiel 5:10

Parents will be so desperate for food that they will eat their own children, and children will eat their parents. Those who survive this horror will be scattered in every direction.

Lamentations 2:20

Think about it, Lord! Have you ever been this cruel to anyone before? Is it right for mothers to eat their children, or for priests and prophets to be killed in your temple?

Jeremiah 13:14

Then I will smash them against each other like jars. I will have no pity on the young or the old, and they will all be destroyed. I, the Lord, have spoken.

Jeremiah 38:9

Ebedmelech said, “Your Majesty, Jeremiah is a prophet, and those men were wrong to throw him into a well. And when Jerusalem runs out of food, Jeremiah will starve to death down there.”