And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.
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Lamentations 2:20 · 20 connections
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The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.
And Moses besought the LORD his God, and said, LORD, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand?
I prayed therefore unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, destroy not thy people and thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed through thy greatness, which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,
And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.
And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the LORD thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee: …
End of linked passage: Deuteronomy 28:57And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, This woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we may eat him to day, and we will eat my son to morrow. …
End of linked passage: 2 Kings 6:29Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day. …
End of linked passage: Isaiah 9:17Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, art our father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting. …
End of linked passage: Isaiah 63:19But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand. …
End of linked passage: Isaiah 64:12The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?
Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that prophesy in my name, and I sent them not, yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land; By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed. …
End of linked passage: Jeremiah 14:18We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee. …
End of linked passage: Jeremiah 14:21For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the LORD. …
End of linked passage: Jeremiah 23:15I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat to relieve their souls.
The anger of the LORD hath divided them; he will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they favoured not the elders.
Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter into all the winds.
And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity: …
End of linked passage: Ezekiel 9:6Original source and licence · Import and validation record · Five excluded rows