2 Kings 18:27
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27 But the Rabshakeh said to them, “Has my master sent me to speak these words to your master and to you and not to the people sitting on the wall, who are doomed with you to eat their own dung and to drink their own urine?”
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Ezekiel 4:15
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15 Then he said to me, “See, I will let you have cow’s dung instead of human dung, on which you may prepare your bread.”
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Ezekiel 4:13
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13 The Lord said, “Thus shall the people of Israel eat their bread, unclean, among the nations to which I will drive them.”(A)
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Lamentations 4:5
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5 Those who feasted on delicacies
perish in the streets;
those who were brought up in purple
cling to ash heaps.
Psalm 73:8
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8 They scoff and speak with malice;
loftily they threaten oppression.(A)
2 Kings 6:25
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25 As the siege continued, famine in Samaria became so great that a donkey’s head was sold for eighty shekels of silver and one-fourth of a kab of dove’s dung for five shekels of silver.
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Deuteronomy 28:53-57
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53 In the desperate straits to which the enemy siege reduces you, you will eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your own sons and daughters whom the Lord your God has given you.(A) 54 Even the most refined and gentle of men among you will begrudge food to his own brother, to the wife whom he embraces, and to the last of his remaining children, 55 giving to none of them any of the flesh of his children whom he is eating, because nothing else remains to him, in the desperate straits to which the enemy siege will reduce you in all your towns. 56 She who is the most refined and gentle among you, so gentle and refined that she does not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground, will begrudge food to the husband whom she embraces, to her own son, and to her own daughter,(B) 57 begrudging even the afterbirth that comes out from between her thighs and the children that she bears, because she is eating them in secret for lack of anything else, in the desperate straits to which the enemy siege will reduce you in your towns.
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