Jeremiah 19:9

New Living Translation

I will see to it that your enemies lay siege to the city until all the food is gone. Then those trapped inside will eat their own sons and daughters and friends. They will be driven to utter despair.’

Cross References

2 Kings 25:3

By July 18 in the eleventh year of Zedekiah’s reign, the famine in the city had become very severe, and the last of the food was entirely gone.

Isaiah 9:20

They will attack their neighbor on the right but will still be hungry. They will devour their neighbor on the left but will not be satisfied. In the end they will even eat their own children.

Jeremiah 13:14

I will smash them against each other, even parents against children, says the Lord. I will not let my pity or mercy or compassion keep me from destroying them.’”

Jeremiah 38:9

“My lord the king,” he said, “these men have done a very evil thing in putting Jeremiah the prophet into the cistern. He will soon die of hunger, for almost all the bread in the city is gone.”

Lamentations 2:20

“O Lord, think about this! Should you treat your own people this way? Should mothers eat their own children, those they once bounced on their knees? Should priests and prophets be killed within the Lord’s Temple?

Lamentations 4:10

Tenderhearted women have cooked their own children. They have eaten them to survive the siege.

Ezekiel 5:10

Parents will eat their own children, and children will eat their parents. I will punish you and scatter to the winds the few who survive.

Leviticus 26:29

Then you will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters.