Lamentations 4:10

King James 2000

The hands of the compassionate women have boiled their own children: they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Cross References

2 Kings 25:3

And on the ninth day of the fourth month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no food for the people of the land.

Isaiah 22:2

You that are full of shoutings, a tumultuous city, a joyous city: your slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle.

Isaiah 49:15

Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget you.

Jeremiah 19:9

And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat everyone the flesh of his friend in the siege and distress, with which their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall distress them.

Lamentations 2:11

My eyes do fail with tears, my soul is troubled, my heart is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the infants faint in the streets of the city.

Lamentations 2:20

Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom you have done this. Shall the women eat their offspring, the children of their tender care? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?

Lamentations 3:48

My eye runs down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Lamentations 4:3

Even the jackals draw out the breast, they nurse their young ones: the daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.

Ezekiel 5:10

Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of you, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments on you, and the whole remnant of you will I scatter into all the winds.

Leviticus 26:29

And you shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall you eat.