Jeremiah 19:9

God's Word

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.”

Cross References

2 Kings 25:3

On the ninth day of the fourth  month, the famine in the city became so severe that the common people had no food.

Isaiah 9:20

On the right, one gobbles up food and is still hungry. On the left, another eats and is never full. Each person eats the flesh from his own arm.

Jeremiah 13:14

Then I will smash them like bottles against each other. I will smash parents and children together, declares the Lord. I will have no pity, mercy, or compassion when I destroy them.’ ”

Jeremiah 38:9

“Your Majesty, everything that these men have done to the prophet Jeremiah is wrong. They have thrown him into the cistern, where he’ll starve to death, because there’s no more bread in the city.”

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.