Lamentations 2:20
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20 “Look, O Lord, and pay attention:
to whom have you been so ruthless?
Must women eat their own offspring,[a]
the very children they have borne?
Are priest and prophet to be slain
in the sanctuary of the Lord?(A)
Deuteronomy 28:56-57
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56 The most fastidious woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground, so refined and fastidious is she, will begrudge her beloved husband and her son and daughter 57 the afterbirth that issues from her womb and the infants she brings forth because she secretly eats them for want of anything else—such the siege and distress to which your enemy will subject you in your communities.
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2 Kings 6:29
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29 So we boiled my son and ate him. The next day I said to her, ‘Now give up your son that we may eat him.’ But she hid her son.”
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