Deuteronomy 28:53-57
Holman Christian Standard Bible
53 “You will eat your children,[a] the flesh of your sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you(A) during the siege and hardship your enemy imposes on you. 54 The most sensitive and refined man among you will look grudgingly[b] at his brother, the wife he embraces,[c] and the rest of his children, 55 refusing to share with any of them his children’s flesh that he will eat because he has nothing left during the siege and hardship your enemy imposes on you in all your towns. 56 The most sensitive and refined woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because of her refinement and sensitivity, will begrudge the husband she embraces, her son, and her daughter, 57 the afterbirth that comes out from between her legs and the children she bears, because she will secretly eat them for lack of anything else during the siege and hardship your enemy imposes on you within your gates.
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- Deuteronomy 28:53 Lit eat the fruit of your womb
- Deuteronomy 28:54 Lit you his eye will be evil
- Deuteronomy 28:54 Lit wife of his bosom
Deuteronomy 28:53-57
New International Version
53 Because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege, you will eat the fruit of the womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you.(A) 54 Even the most gentle and sensitive man among you will have no compassion on his own brother or the wife he loves or his surviving children, 55 and he will not give to one of them any of the flesh of his children that he is eating. It will be all he has left because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege of all your cities.(B) 56 The most gentle and sensitive(C) woman among you—so sensitive and gentle that she would not venture to touch the ground with the sole of her foot—will begrudge the husband she loves and her own son or daughter(D) 57 the afterbirth from her womb and the children she bears. For in her dire need she intends to eat them(E) secretly because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege of your cities.
Deuteronomy 28:53-57
King James Version
53 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:
54 So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave:
55 So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he hath nothing left him in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates.
56 The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,
57 And toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates.
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2 Kings 6:28-29
Holman Christian Standard Bible
28 Then the king asked her, “What’s the matter?”(A)
She said, “This woman said to me, ‘Give up your son, and we will eat him today. Then we will eat my son tomorrow.’ 29 So we boiled my son and ate him, and I said to her the next day, ‘Give up your son, and we will eat him,’(B) but she has hidden her son.”
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2 Kings 6:28-29
New International Version
28 Then he asked her, “What’s the matter?”
She answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give up your son so we may eat him today, and tomorrow we’ll eat my son.’ 29 So we cooked my son and ate(A) him. The next day I said to her, ‘Give up your son so we may eat him,’ but she had hidden him.”
2 Kings 6:28-29
King James Version
28 And 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.
29 So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she hath hid her son.
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Jeremiah 19:9
Holman Christian Standard Bible
9 I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and their daughters, and they will eat each other’s flesh in the siege and distress that their enemies, those who want to take their life, inflict on them.(A)
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Jeremiah 19:9
New International Version
9 I will make them eat(A) the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh because their enemies(B) will press the siege so hard against them to destroy them.’
Jeremiah 19:9
King James Version
9 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 4:10
Holman Christian Standard Bible
י Yod
10 The hands of compassionate women
have cooked their own children;(A)
they became their food
during the destruction of my dear people.(B)
Lamentations 4:10
New International Version
10 With their own hands compassionate women
have cooked their own children,(A)
who became their food
when my people were destroyed.
Lamentations 4:10
King James Version
10 The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
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Micah 3:2-3
Holman Christian Standard Bible
2 You hate good and love evil.
You tear off people’s skin(A)
and strip their flesh from their bones.
3 You eat the flesh(B) of my people
after you strip their skin from them
and break their bones.
You chop them up(C)
like flesh for the cooking pot,
like meat in a cauldron.”
Micah 3:2-3
New International Version
Micah 3:2-3
King James Version
2 Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;
3 Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.
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