Lamentations 4:10

Tree of Life Version

The hands of compassionate women boiled their own children. They became their food when the daughter of my people were destroyed.

Cross References

2 Kings 25:3

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

Isaiah 22:2

You were full of noise, a boisterous city, an exultant town? Your dead were not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle.

Isaiah 49:15

“Can a woman forget her nursing baby or lack compassion for a child of her womb? Even if these forget, I will not forget you.

Jeremiah 19:9

And I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and their daughters, and everyone will eat his companion’s flesh during the siege and distress, which their enemies and those who seek their life will inflict on them.

Lamentations 2:11

My eyes are filled with tears. My stomach is in torment. My heart is poured out on the ground over the destruction of the daughter of my people— as young children and infants languish in the city squares.

Lamentations 2:20

Look, Adonai, and consider with whom You have dealt so severely! Should women eat their offspring, their healthy newborn infants? Should kohen and prophet be slain in the Sanctuary of the Lord?

Lamentations 3:48

Streams of tears run down my eyes because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Lamentations 4:3

Even jackals offer their breast to nurse their young. The daughter of my people has become cruel, like ostriches in the desert.

Ezekiel 5:10

Therefore the fathers will eat the sons in your midst, and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments on you and I will scatter the remainder of you to all the winds.

Leviticus 26:29

You will eat the flesh of your sons and you will eat the flesh of your daughters.