Lamentations 4:10

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

The hands of compassionate women have boiled their own children; they became their food in the destruction of my people.

Cross References

Lamentations 2:20

Look, O Lord, and consider! To whom have you done this? Should women eat their offspring, the children they have borne? Should priest and prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?

Isaiah 49:15

Can a woman forget her nursing child or show no compassion for the child of her womb? Even these might forget, yet I will not forget you.

Jeremiah 19:9

And I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and all shall eat the flesh of their neighbors in the siege and in the distress with which their enemies and those who seek their life afflict them.

Ezekiel 5:10

Surely, parents shall eat their children in your midst, and children shall eat their parents; I will execute judgments on you, and any of you who survive I will scatter to every wind.

Lamentations 4:3

Even the jackals offer the breast and nurse their young, but my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.

Lamentations 3:48

My eyes flow with rivers of tears because of the destruction of my people.

Leviticus 26:29

You shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters.

2 Kings 25:3

On the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine became so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.

Lamentations 2:11

My eyes are spent with weeping; my stomach churns; my bile is poured out on the ground because of the destruction of my people, because infants and babes faint in the streets of the city.

Isaiah 22:2

city full of shouting, tumultuous city, panic-stricken town? Your slain are not slain by the sword, nor are they dead in battle.