(A)And I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and their daughters, and everyone shall eat the flesh of his neighbor (B)in the siege and in the distress, with which their enemies and those who seek their life afflict them.’

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20 (A)They slice meat on the right, but are still hungry,
    and they devour on the left, but are not satisfied;
(B)each devours the flesh of his own arm,

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10 (A)The hands of (B)compassionate women
    (C)have boiled their own children;
(D)they became their food
    during the destruction of the daughter of my people.

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29 (A)You shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters.

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10 Therefore (A)fathers shall eat their sons in your midst, and sons shall eat their fathers. (B)And I will execute judgments on you, (C)and any of you who survive I will scatter to all the winds.

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20 Look, O Lord, and see!
    (A)With whom have you dealt thus?
(B)Should women eat the fruit of their womb,
    the children of (C)their tender care?
Should (D)priest and prophet be killed
    in the sanctuary of the Lord?

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26 Now as the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, saying, “Help, my lord, O king!” 27 And he said, “If the Lord will not help you, how shall I help you? From the threshing floor, or from the winepress?” 28 And the king asked her, “What is your trouble?” She answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.’ 29 (A)So we boiled my son and ate him. And on the next day I said to her, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him.’ But she has hidden her son.”

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53 And (A)you shall eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your sons and daughters, whom the Lord your God has given you, (B)in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies shall distress you. 54 The man who is the most tender and refined among you will (C)begrudge food to his brother, to (D)the wife he embraces,[a] and to the last of the children whom he has left, 55 so that he will not give to any of them any of the flesh of his children whom he is eating, because he has nothing else left, (E)in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in all your towns. 56 (F)The most tender and refined woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because she is so delicate and tender, will begrudge to the husband she embraces,[b] to her son and to her daughter, 57 her afterbirth that comes out from between her feet and her children whom she bears, because lacking everything she will eat them secretly, (G)in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in your towns.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 28:54 Hebrew the wife of his bosom
  2. Deuteronomy 28:56 Hebrew the husband of her bosom

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