Deuteronomy 28:53

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

while you wait in horror. Finally, you will get so hungry that you will eat the sons and daughters that the LORD gave you.

Cross References

Jeremiah 19:9

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.

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?

Lamentations 4:10

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

Leviticus 26:29

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

Matthew 24:19

It will be a terrible time for women who are expecting babies or nursing young children.

Deuteronomy 28:18

You'll have only a few children, your crops will be small, and your herds of cattle and flocks of sheep and goats won't produce many young.

Deuteronomy 28:54

Because of hunger, a man who had been gentle and kind will eat his own children and refuse to share the meal with his brother or wife or with his other children.