Deuteronomy 28:55

Modern English Version

so that he will not give to any of them any of the flesh of his children which he will eat, because he has nothing left to him because of the siege and the distress by which your enemies will persecute you in all your towns.

Cross References

Jeremiah 52:6

In the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was so severe in the city that there was no bread for the people of the land.

Jeremiah 34:2

Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah and tell him: Thus says the Lord: Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will burn it with fire.

Jeremiah 5:10

Go up upon her walls and destroy, but make not a full end. Take away her battlements. For they are not the Lord’s.

Deuteronomy 28:53

You will eat the offspring of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, which the Lord your God has given you, during the siege and distress in which your enemies will persecute you.

Deuteronomy 28:54

The man who is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be hostile toward his brother and toward his beloved wife and toward the rest of his children who remain,

Deuteronomy 28:56

The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because of her delicateness and tenderness, will be hostile toward her beloved husband, and toward her son and her daughter,

Jeremiah 19:9

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