Lamentations 4:10
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.”
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“The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.”
King James Version · Public Domain“The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“The hands of merciful women have boiled their own children, They have been for food to them, In the destruction of the daughter of my people.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Lamentations 4:10 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Leviticus 26:29You will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters.
- Deuteronomy 28:53Then you will eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you.
- 2 Kings 6:26As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, “Help me, my lord the king!”
- 2 Kings 6:29So we boiled my son and ate him, and the next day I said to her, ‘Give up your son, that we may eat him.’ But she had hidden her son.”
- Isaiah 22:2O city of commotion, O town of revelry? Your slain did not die by the sword, nor were they killed in battle.
- Isaiah 49:15“Can a woman forget her nursing child, or lack compassion for the son of her womb? Even if she could forget, I will not forget you!
- Jeremiah 19:9I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh in the siege and distress inflicted on them by their enemies who seek their lives.’
- Lamentations 2:20Look, O LORD, and consider: Whom have You ever treated like this? Should women eat their offspring, the infants they have nurtured? Should priests and prophets be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
- Lamentations 3:48Streams of tears flow from my eyes over the destruction of the daughter of my people.
- Lamentations 4:3Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young, but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like an ostrich in the wilderness.
- Ezekiel 5:10As a result, fathers among you will eat their sons, and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments against you and scatter all your remnant to every wind.’
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