Jeremiah 19:9

New English Translation

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.”’”

Cross References

2 Kings 25:3

By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine in the city was so severe the residents had no food.

Isaiah 9:20

They devoured on the right, but were still hungry, they ate on the left, but were not satisfied. People even ate the flesh of their own arm!

Jeremiah 13:14

And I will smash them like wine bottles against one another, children and parents alike. I will not show any pity, mercy, or compassion. Nothing will keep me from destroying them,’ says the Lord.”

Jeremiah 38:9

“Your royal Majesty, those men have been very wicked in all that they have done to the prophet Jeremiah. They have thrown him into a cistern and he is sure to die of starvation there because there is no food left in the city.

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.