Jeremiah 19:9

The Scriptures 1998

“And I shall make them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and eat one another’s flesh in the siege and in the distress with which their enemies and those who seek their lives distress them.” ’

Cross References

Isaiah 9:20

and cut down on the right hand, but shall be hungry; and he devours on the left hand, but shall not be satisfied; each one devouring the flesh of his own arm:

Lamentations 4:10

The hands of the compassionate women Have boiled their own children; They became food for them In the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Leviticus 26:29

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

Ezekiel 5:10

‘Therefore fathers are going to eat their sons in your midst, and sons eat their fathers. And I shall execute judgments among you and scatter all your remnant to all the winds.

Lamentations 2:20

“See, O יהוה, and look attentively To whom have You done thus. Should the women eat their offspring, Infants of a hand breadth? Should the priest and prophet be slain In the set-apart place of יהוה ?

Jeremiah 13:14

“And I shall dash them one against another, both the fathers and the sons together,” declares יהוה. “I do not spare nor pardon nor have compassion, that I should not destroy them.” ’ ”

2 Kings 25:3

By the ninth of the month the scarcity of food had become so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.

Jeremiah 38:9

“My master the sovereign, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Yirmeyahu the prophet, whom they have thrown into the dungeon, and he is likely to die from hunger in the place where he is, for there is no more bread in the city.”