Lamentations 2:20

New Century Version

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.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:17

So God brought the king of Babylon to attack them. The king killed the young men even when they were in the Temple. He had no mercy on the young men or women, the old men or those who were sick. God handed all of them over to Nebuchadnezzar.

Psalm 78:64

Their priests fell by the sword, but their widows were not allowed to cry.

Exodus 32:11

But Moses begged the Lord his God and said, “Lord, don’t let your anger destroy your people, whom you brought out of Egypt with your great power and strength.

Isaiah 22:2

This city was a very busy city, full of noise and wild parties. Now your people have been killed, but not with swords, nor did they die in battle.

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.’

Jeremiah 21:7

Then, says the Lord, I’ll hand over Zedekiah king of Judah, his officers, and the people in Jerusalem who do not die from the terrible diseases or battle or hunger, to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. I will let those win who want to kill the people of Judah, so the people of Judah and Jerusalem will be killed in war. Nebuchadnezzar will not show any mercy or pity or feel sorry for them!’

Jeremiah 5:31

The prophets speak lies, and the priests take power into their own hands, and my people love it this way. But what will you do when the end comes?

Lamentations 1:19

“I called out to my friends, but they turned against me. My priests and my elders have died in the city while looking for food to stay alive.

Lamentations 4:10

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

Lamentations 4:13

It happened because her prophets sinned and her priests did evil. They killed in the city those who did what was right.

Lamentations 4:16

The Lord himself scattered them and did not look after them anymore. No one respects the priests or honors the elders.

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.

Ezekiel 9:7

Then he said to the men, “Make the Temple unclean, and fill the courtyards with those who have been killed. Go out!” So the men went out and killed the people in the city.

Leviticus 26:29

You will eat the bodies of your sons and daughters.

Deuteronomy 9:26

I prayed to the Lord and said, “Lord God, do not destroy your people, your own people, whom you freed and brought out of Egypt by your great power and strength.