20 “Look, Lord, and consider:
    Whom have you ever treated like this?
Should women eat their offspring,(A)
    the children they have cared for?(B)
Should priest and prophet be killed(C)
    in the sanctuary of the Lord?(D)

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10 With their own hands compassionate women
    have cooked their own children,(A)
who became their food
    when my people were destroyed.

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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.’

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64 their priests were put to the sword,(A)
    and their widows could not weep.

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13 But it happened because of the sins of her prophets
    and the iniquities of her priests,(A)
who shed within her
    the blood(B) of the righteous.

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26 I prayed to the Lord and said, “Sovereign Lord, do not destroy your people,(A) your own inheritance(B) that you redeemed(C) by your great power and brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.(D)

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11 But Moses sought the favor(A) of the Lord his God. “Lord,” he said, “why should your anger burn against your people, whom you brought out of Egypt with great power and a mighty hand?(B)

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As I listened, he said to the others, “Follow him through the city and kill, without showing pity(A) or compassion.(B) Slaughter(C) the old men, the young men and women, the mothers and children,(D) but do not touch anyone who has the mark.(E) Begin at my sanctuary.” So they began with the old men(F) who were in front of the temple.(G)

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10 Therefore in your midst parents will eat their children, and children will eat their parents.(A) I will inflict punishment on you and will scatter all your survivors to the winds.(B)

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16 The Lord himself has scattered them;
    he no longer watches over them.(A)
The priests are shown no honor,
    the elders(B) no favor.(C)

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19 “I called to my allies(A)
    but they betrayed me.
My priests and my elders
    perished(B) in the city
while they searched for food
    to keep themselves alive.

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11 “Both prophet and priest are godless;(A)
    even in my temple(B) I find their wickedness,”
declares the Lord.
12 “Therefore their path will become slippery;(C)
    they will be banished to darkness
    and there they will fall.
I will bring disaster on them
    in the year they are punished,(D)
declares the Lord.

13 “Among the prophets of Samaria
    I saw this repulsive thing:
They prophesied by Baal(E)
    and led my people Israel astray.(F)
14 And among the prophets of Jerusalem
    I have seen something horrible:(G)
    They commit adultery and live a lie.(H)
They strengthen the hands of evildoers,(I)
    so that not one of them turns from their wickedness.(J)
They are all like Sodom(K) to me;
    the people of Jerusalem are like Gomorrah.”(L)

15 Therefore this is what the Lord Almighty says concerning the prophets:

“I will make them eat bitter food
    and drink poisoned water,(M)
because from the prophets of Jerusalem
    ungodliness(N) has spread throughout the land.”

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20 We acknowledge(A) our wickedness, Lord,
    and the guilt of our ancestors;(B)
    we have indeed sinned(C) against you.
21 For the sake of your name(D) do not despise us;
    do not dishonor your glorious throne.(E)
Remember your covenant(F) with us
    and do not break it.

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15 Therefore this is what the Lord says about the prophets who are prophesying in my name: I did not send them, yet they are saying, ‘No sword or famine will touch this land.’ Those same prophets will perish(A) by sword and famine.(B) 16 And the people they are prophesying to will be thrown out into the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and sword. There will be no one to bury(C) them, their wives, their sons and their daughters.(D) I will pour out on them the calamity they deserve.(E)

17 “Speak this word to them:

“‘Let my eyes overflow with tears(F)
    night and day without ceasing;
for the Virgin(G) Daughter, my people,
    has suffered a grievous wound,
    a crushing blow.(H)
18 If I go into the country,
    I see those slain by the sword;
if I go into the city,
    I see the ravages of famine.(I)
Both prophet and priest
    have gone to a land they know not.(J)’”

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31 The prophets prophesy lies,(A)
    the priests(B) rule by their own authority,
and my people love it this way.
    But what will you do in the end?(C)

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Yet you, Lord, are our Father.(A)
    We are the clay, you are the potter;(B)
    we are all the work of your hand.(C)
Do not be angry(D) beyond measure, Lord;
    do not remember our sins(E) forever.
Oh, look on us, we pray,
    for we are all your people.(F)
10 Your sacred cities(G) have become a wasteland;
    even Zion is a wasteland, Jerusalem a desolation.(H)
11 Our holy and glorious temple,(I) where our ancestors praised you,
    has been burned with fire,
    and all that we treasured(J) lies in ruins.
12 After all this, Lord, will you hold yourself back?(K)
    Will you keep silent(L) and punish us beyond measure?

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16 But you are our Father,(A)
    though Abraham does not know us
    or Israel acknowledge(B) us;
you, Lord, are our Father,
    our Redeemer(C) from of old is your name.
17 Why, Lord, do you make us wander(D) from your ways
    and harden our hearts(E) so we do not revere(F) you?
Return(G) for the sake of your servants,
    the tribes that are your inheritance.(H)
18 For a little while(I) your people possessed your holy place,
    but now our enemies have trampled(J) down your sanctuary.(K)
19 We are yours from of old;
    but you have not ruled over them,
    they have not been called[a] by your name.(L)

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 63:19 Or We are like those you have never ruled, / like those never called

14 So the Lord will cut off from Israel both head and tail,
    both palm branch and reed(A) in a single day;(B)
15 the elders(C) and dignitaries(D) are the head,
    the prophets(E) who teach lies(F) are the tail.
16 Those who guide(G) this people mislead them,
    and those who are guided are led astray.(H)
17 Therefore the Lord will take no pleasure in the young men,(I)
    nor will he pity(J) the fatherless and widows,
for everyone is ungodly(K) and wicked,(L)
    every mouth speaks folly.(M)

Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away,
    his hand is still upraised.(N)

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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.”

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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.

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29 You will eat(A) the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters.(B)

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