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Deuteronomy 28:55

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

refusing to share with any of them his children’s flesh that he will eat because he has nothing left during the siege and hardship your enemy imposes on you in all your towns.

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By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city that the common people had no food.


‘This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: Go, speak to King Zedekiah of Judah, and tell him, “This is what the Lord says: I am about to hand this city over to the king of Babylon,  and he will burn it.


Go up among her vineyard terraces and destroy them, but do not finish them off. Prune away her shoots, for they do not belong to the  Lord.


‘You will eat your offspring,  the flesh of your sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you  during the siege and hardship your enemy imposes on you.


The most sensitive and refined man among you will look grudgingly at his brother, the wife he embraces, and the rest of his children,


The most sensitive and refined woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because of her refinement and sensitivity, will begrudge the husband she embraces, her son, and her daughter,


I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and their daughters, and they will eat each other’s flesh in the distressing siege inflicted on them by their enemies who intend to take their life.”





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