Deuteronomy 28:53

Easy To Read Version

You will suffer very much. The enemy will surround your cities. They will not let you have any food. You will become very hungry. You will be so hungry that you will eat your own sons and daughters—you will eat the bodies of the children that the Lord your God gave you.

Cross References

Jeremiah 19:9

The enemy will bring its army around the city. That army will not let people go out to get food. So the people in the city will begin to starve. They will become so hungry that they will eat the bodies of their own sons and daughters. And then they will begin to eat each other.’

Lamentations 2:20

Look at me, Lord!\par See who it is\par that you have treated this way!\par Let me ask this question:\par Should women eat the children\par they have given birth to?\par Should women eat the children\par that they have cared for?\par Should priest and prophet\par be killed in the temple of the Lord?\par

Lamentations 4:10

At that time, even very nice women\par cooked their own children.\par Those children became food\par for their mothers.\par This happened when my people\par were destroyed.\par

Ezekiel 5:10

People in Jerusalem will be so hungry that parents will eat their own children and children will eat their own parents. I will punish you in many ways. And the people that are left alive, I will scatter them to the winds.

Leviticus 26:29

{You will become so hungry that} you will eat the bodies of your sons and daughters.

Matthew 24:19

At that time, it will be bad for women that are pregnant or have small babies!

Deuteronomy 28:18

The Lord will curse you, and you will not have many children. He will curse your land and you will not have good crops. He will curse your animals and they will not have many babies. He will curse all your calves and lambs.

Deuteronomy 28:54

“Even the most gentle and kind man among you will become cruel. He will be cruel to other people. He will be cruel to his wife that he loves so much. And he will be cruel to his children that are still alive.

Deuteronomy 28:55

He will have nothing left to eat, so he will eat his own children. And he will not share that meat with anyone—not even the other people in his own family! All those bad things will happen when your enemy comes to surround your cities and make you suffer.

Deuteronomy 28:57

She will hide and give birth to a baby. And she will eat the baby and everything that comes out of her body with it. All those bad things will happen when your enemy comes to surround your cities and make you suffer.