Lamentations 4:10

New Living Translation

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

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 22:2

The whole city is in a terrible uproar. What do I see in this reveling city? Bodies are lying everywhere, killed not in battle but by famine and disease.

Isaiah 49:15

“Never! Can a mother forget her nursing child? Can she feel no love for the child she has borne? But even if that were possible, I would not forget you!

Jeremiah 19:9

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.’

Lamentations 2:11

I have cried until the tears no longer come; my heart is broken. My spirit is poured out in agony as I see the desperate plight of my people. Little children and tiny babies are fainting and dying in the streets.

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 3:48

Tears stream from my eyes because of the destruction of my people!

Lamentations 4:3

Even the jackals feed their young, but not my people Israel. They ignore their children’s cries, like ostriches in the desert.

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.