Lamentations 4:10

Good News Translation

The disaster that came to my people brought horror; loving mothers boiled their own children for food.

Cross References

2 Kings 25:3

On the ninth day of the fourth month of that same year, when the famine was so bad that the people had nothing left to eat,

Isaiah 22:2

The whole city is in an uproar, filled with noise and excitement. Your people who died in this war did not die fighting.

Isaiah 49:15

So the Lord answers, “Can a woman forget her own baby and not love the child she bore? Even if a mother should forget her child, I will never forget you.

Jeremiah 19:9

The enemy will surround the city and try to kill its people. The siege will be so terrible that the people inside the city will eat one another and even their own children.”

Lamentations 2:11

My eyes are worn out with weeping; my soul is in anguish. I am exhausted with grief at the destruction of my people. Children and babies are fainting in the streets of the city.

Lamentations 2:20

Look, O Lord! Why are you punishing us like this? Women are eating the bodies of the children they loved! Priests and prophets are being killed in the Temple itself!

Lamentations 3:48

My eyes flow with rivers of tears at the destruction of my people.

Lamentations 4:3

Even a mother wolf will nurse her cubs, but my people are like ostriches, cruel to their young.

Ezekiel 5:10

As a result, parents in Jerusalem will eat their children, and children will eat their parents. I will punish you and scatter in every direction any who are left alive.

Leviticus 26:29

Your hunger will be so great that you will eat your own children.