Deuteronomy 28:53

God's Word

Because of the hardships your enemies will make you suffer during the blockade, you will eat the flesh of your own children, the sons and daughters, whom the Lord your God has given you.

Cross References

Jeremiah 19:9

I will make the people eat the flesh of their sons and daughters. They will eat each other’s flesh during blockades and hardships that their enemies impose on them when they want to kill them.”

Lamentations 2:20

“O Lord, look and consider: Have you ever treated anyone like this? Should women eat their own children, the children they have nursed? Should priests and prophets be killed in the Lord’s holy place?

Lamentations 4:10

The hands of loving mothers cooked their own children. The children were used for food by my people when they were being destroyed ⌞by a blockade⌟.

Ezekiel 5:10

That is why parents will eat their children, and children will eat their parents. I will punish you and scatter whoever is left to the wind.

Leviticus 26:29

You will eat the bodies of your sons and daughters.

Matthew 24:19

“How horrible it will be for the women who are pregnant or who are nursing babies in those days.

Deuteronomy 28:18

You will be cursed. You will have few children. Your land will have few crops. Your cattle will be cursed with few calves, and your flocks will have few lambs and kids.

Deuteronomy 28:54

Even the most tender and sensitive man among you will become stingy toward his brother, the wife he loves, and the children he still has left.

Deuteronomy 28:55

He will give none of them any of the flesh of his children that he is eating. It will be all that he has left, because of the hardships your enemies will make you suffer during the blockade of all your cities.

Deuteronomy 28:57

She won’t share with them the afterbirth from her body and the children she gives birth to. She will secretly eat them out of dire necessity, because of the hardships your enemies will make you suffer during the blockade of your cities.