Deuteronomy 28:53

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

And you shall eat the offspring of your own body, the flesh of your sons and daughters, whom the Lord your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies shall distress you.

Cross References

Jeremiah 19:9

And I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and their daughters, and every one shall eat the flesh of his neighbor 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 see! With whom hast thou dealt thus? Should women eat their offspring, the children of their tender care? Should priest and prophet be slain 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 the daughter of my people.

Ezekiel 5:10

Therefore fathers shall eat their sons in the midst of you, and sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments on you, and any of you who survive I will scatter to all the winds.

Leviticus 26:29

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

Matthew 24:19

And alas for those who are with child and for those who give suck in those days!

Deuteronomy 28:18

Cursed shall be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your ground, the increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock.

Deuteronomy 28:54

The man who is the most tender and delicately bred among you will grudge food to his brother, to the wife of his bosom, and to the last of the children who remain to him;

Deuteronomy 28:55

so that he will not give to any of them any of the flesh of his children whom he is eating, because he has nothing left him, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in all your towns.

Deuteronomy 28:57

her afterbirth that comes out from between her feet and her children whom she bears, because she will eat them secretly, for want of all things, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in your towns.