Deuteronomy 28:53

New English Translation

You will then eat your own offspring, the flesh of the sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you, because of the severity of the siege by which your enemies will constrict you.

Cross References

Jeremiah 19:9

I will reduce the people of this city to desperate straits during the siege imposed on it by their enemies who are seeking to kill them. I will make them so desperate that they will eat the flesh of their own sons and daughters and the flesh of one another.”’”

Lamentations 2:20

Look, O Lord! Consider! Whom have you ever afflicted like this? Should women eat their offspring, their healthy infants? Should priest and prophet be killed in the Lord’s sanctuary? ש (Sin/Shin)

Lamentations 4:10

The hands of tenderhearted women cooked their own children, who became their food, when my people were destroyed. כ (Kaf)

Ezekiel 5:10

Therefore fathers will eat their sons within you, Jerusalem, and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments on you, and I will scatter any survivors to the winds.

Leviticus 26:29

You will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters.

Matthew 24:19

Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing their babies in those days!

Deuteronomy 28:18

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

Deuteronomy 28:54

The man among you who is by nature tender and sensitive will turn against his brother, his beloved wife, and his remaining children.

Deuteronomy 28:55

He will withhold from all of them his children’s flesh that he is eating (since there is nothing else left), because of the severity of the siege by which your enemy will constrict you in your villages.

Deuteronomy 28:57

and will secretly eat her afterbirth and her newborn children (since she has nothing else), because of the severity of the siege by which your enemy will constrict you in your villages.