Deuteronomy 28:55

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

So that he will not give them of the flesh of his children, which he shall eat: Because he hath nothing else in the siege and the want, wherewith thy enemies shall distress thee within all thy gates.

Cross References

Jeremiah 52:6

And in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, a famine overpowered the city: and there was no food for the people of the land.

Jeremiah 34:2

Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel: Go, and speak to Sedecias king of Juda, and say to him: Thus saith the Lord: Behold, I will deliver this city into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.

Jeremiah 5:10

Scale down the walls thereof and throw them down, but do not utterly destroy: take away the branches thereof, because they are not the Lord's.

Deuteronomy 28:53

And thou shalt eat the fruit of thy womb, and the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the Lord thy God shall give thee, in the distress and extremity wherewith thy enemy shall oppress thee.

Deuteronomy 28:54

The man that is nice among you, and very delicate, shall envy his own brother, and his wife, that lieth in his bosom,

Deuteronomy 28:56

The tender and delicate woman, that could not go upon the ground, nor set down her foot for over-much niceness and tenderness, will envy her husband who lieth in her bosom, the flesh of her son, and of her daughter,

Jeremiah 19:9

And I will feed them with the flesh of their sons and with the flesh of their daughters: and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege, and in the distress wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives shall straiten them.