Lamentations 4:10

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children; they became their food during the destruction of my dear people.

Cross References

Lamentations 2:20

Lord, look and consider to whom you have done this. Should women eat their own children, the infants they have nurtured? Should priests and prophets be killed in the Lord’s sanctuary?

Isaiah 49:15

‘Can a woman forget her nursing child, or lack compassion for the child of her womb? Even if these forget, yet I will not forget you.

Jeremiah 19:9

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.”

Ezekiel 5:10

As a result, fathers will eat their sons  within Jerusalem,  and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgements against you and scatter all your survivors to every direction of the wind.

Lamentations 4:3

Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young, but my dear people have become cruel like ostriches  in the wilderness.

Lamentations 3:48

My eyes flow with streams of tears because of the destruction of my dear people.

Leviticus 26:29

You will eat the flesh of your sons; you will eat the flesh of your daughters.

2 Kings 25:3

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

Lamentations 2:11

My eyes are worn out from weeping; I am churning within. My heart is poured out in grief  , because of the destruction of my dear people, because infants and nursing babies faint in the streets of the city.

Isaiah 22:2

The noisy city, the jubilant town, is filled with celebration. Your dead did not die by the sword; they were not killed in battle.