Jeremiah 19:9

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

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.’

Cross References

Isaiah 9:20

People looked to the right and grabbed whatever they could, but they were still hungry. They grabbed whatever was on their left, but still they were not satisfied. So they turned on themselves and began to eat the bodies of their own children.

Lamentations 4:10

Then even nice women cooked their own children. The children were food for their mothers. This happened when my people were destroyed.

Leviticus 26:29

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

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 those who are left alive, I will scatter to the winds.”

Lamentations 2:20

Look at us, Lord! Have you ever treated anyone else so badly? Is it right for women to eat their own babies, the children they have cared for? Should priests and prophets be killed in the Temple of the Lord?

Jeremiah 13:14

I will make them stumble and fall against each other, even the fathers and sons.’ This message is from the Lord. ‘I will not feel sorry or have pity for them. I will not allow compassion to stop me from destroying the people of Judah.’”

2 Kings 25:3

The famine was getting worse and worse in the city. By the 9th day of the fourth month, there was no more food for the common people in the city.