Lamentations 4:10

New American Bible - revised edition

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

Cross References

2 Kings 25:3

On the ninth day of the month, when famine had gripped the city, and the people of the land had no more food,

Isaiah 22:2

You who were full of noise, tumultuous city, exultant town? Your slain are not slain with the sword, nor killed in battle.

Isaiah 49:15

Can a mother forget her infant, be without tenderness for the child of her womb? Even should she forget, I will never forget you.

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 2:11

My eyes are spent with tears, my stomach churns; My bile is poured out on the ground at the brokenness of the daughter of my people, As children and infants collapse in the streets of the town.

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 3:48

My eyes stream with tears over the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Lamentations 4:3

Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young; But the daughter of my people is as cruel as the ostrich in the wilderness.

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.