²⁸ Then the king said to her, “What is troubling you?”

And she answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.’

⁵ Then the king said to her, “What troubles you?”

And she answered, ^(A)“Indeed I am a widow, my husband is dead.

²³ And they called out to the children of Dan. So they turned around and said to Micah, ^(A)“What ails you, that you have gathered such a company?”

^29 (A)For indeed the days are coming in which they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, wombs that never bore, and breasts which never nursed!’

¹⁸ And let him who is in the field not go back to get his clothes. ¹⁹ But ^(A)woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days! ²⁰ And pray that your flight may not be in winter or on the Sabbath. ²¹ For ^(B)then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be.

¹⁰ Therefore fathers ^(A)shall eat their sons in your midst, and sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments among you, and all of you who remain I will ^(B)scatter to all the winds.

Proclamation Against Jerusalem

22 The ^[a]burden against the Valley of Vision.