Deuteronomy 28:53

New Century Version

Your enemy will surround you. Those people will make you starve so that you will eat your own babies, the bodies of the sons and daughters the Lord your God gave you.

Cross References

Jeremiah 19:9

An enemy army will surround the city and will not let anyone go out to get food. I will make the people so hungry that they will eat the bodies of their own sons and daughters, and then they will begin to eat each other.’

Lamentations 2:20

Jerusalem says: “Look, Lord, and see to whom you have done this. Women eat their own babies, the children they have cared for. Priests and prophets are killed in the Temple of the Lord.

Lamentations 4:10

With their own hands kind women cook their own children. They became food when my people were destroyed.

Ezekiel 5:10

So parents among you will eat their children, and children will eat their parents. I will punish you and will scatter to the winds all who are left alive.

Leviticus 26:29

You will eat the bodies of your sons and daughters.

Matthew 24:19

At that time, how terrible it will be for women who are pregnant or have nursing babies!

Deuteronomy 28:18

Your children will be cursed, as well as your crops; the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks will be cursed.

Deuteronomy 28:54

Even the most gentle and kind man among you will become cruel to his brother, his wife whom he loves, and his children who are still alive.

Deuteronomy 28:55

He will not even give them any of the flesh of his children he is eating, because it will be all he has left. Your enemy will surround you and make you starve in all your cities.

Deuteronomy 28:57

She will give birth to a baby, but she will plan to eat the baby and what comes after the birth itself. She will eat them secretly while the enemy surrounds the city. Those people will make you starve in all your cities.