Lamentations 4:10

New International Version

With their own hands compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food when my people were destroyed.

Cross References

2 Kings 25:3

By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine in the city had become so severe that there was no food for the people to eat.

Isaiah 22:2

you town so full of commotion, you city of tumult and revelry? Your slain were not killed by the sword, nor did they die in battle.

Isaiah 49:15

“Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you!

Jeremiah 19:9

I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh because their enemies will press the siege so hard against them to destroy them.’

Lamentations 2:11

My eyes fail from weeping, I am in torment within; my heart is poured out on the ground because my people are destroyed, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city.

Lamentations 2:20

“Look, Lord, and consider: Whom have you ever treated like this? Should women eat their offspring, the children they have cared for? Should priest and prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?

Lamentations 3:48

Streams of tears flow from my eyes because my people are destroyed.

Lamentations 4:3

Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young, but my people have become heartless like ostriches in the desert.

Ezekiel 5:10

Therefore in your midst parents will eat their children, and children will eat their parents. I will inflict punishment on you and will scatter all your survivors to the winds.

Leviticus 26:29

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