Deuteronomy 28:53

New American Bible - revised edition

and because of the siege and the distress to which your enemy subjects you, you will eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your own sons and daughters whom the Lord, your God, has given you.

Cross References

Jeremiah 19:9

I will have them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters; they shall eat one another’s flesh during the harsh siege under which their enemies and those who seek their lives will confine them.

Lamentations 2:20

“Look, O Lord, and pay attention: to whom have you been so ruthless? Must women eat their own offspring, the very children they have borne? Are priest and prophet to be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?

Lamentations 4:10

The hands of compassionate women have boiled their own children! They became their food when the daughter of my people was shattered.

Ezekiel 5:10

Therefore, parents will eat their children in your midst, and children will eat their parents. I will inflict punishments upon you and scatter all who remain to the winds.

Leviticus 26:29

till you begin to eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters.

Matthew 24:19

Woe to pregnant women and nursing mothers in those days.

Deuteronomy 28:18

Cursed be the fruit of your womb, the produce of your soil and the offspring of your livestock, the issue of your herds and the young of your flocks!

Deuteronomy 28:54

The most refined and fastidious man among you will begrudge his brother and his beloved wife and his surviving children,

Deuteronomy 28:55

any share in the flesh of his children that he himself is using for food because nothing else is left him—such the siege and distress to which your enemy will subject you in all your communities.

Deuteronomy 28:57

the afterbirth that issues from her womb and the infants she brings forth because she secretly eats them for want of anything else—such the siege and distress to which your enemy will subject you in your communities. Plagues.