Deuteronomy 28:53

New Revised Standard Version

In the desperate straits to which the enemy siege reduces you, you will eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your own sons and daughters whom the Lord your God has given you.

Cross References

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.

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?

Lamentations 4:10

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

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.

Leviticus 26:29

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

Matthew 24:19

Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing infants in those days!

Deuteronomy 28:18

Cursed shall be the fruit of your womb, the fruit of your ground, the increase of your cattle and the issue of your flock.

Deuteronomy 28:54

Even the most refined and gentle of men among you will begrudge food to his own brother, to the wife whom he embraces, and to the last of his remaining children,

Deuteronomy 28:55

giving to none of them any of the flesh of his children whom he is eating, because nothing else remains to him, in the desperate straits to which the enemy siege will reduce you in all your towns.

Deuteronomy 28:57

begrudging even the afterbirth that comes out from between her thighs, and the children that she bears, because she is eating them in secret for lack of anything else, in the desperate straits to which the enemy siege will reduce you in your towns.