²⁹ Further, ^(A)you will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters you will eat.

²⁸ And the king said to her, “^(A)What ^[a]is the matter with you?” And she ^[b]answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give your son that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.’ ^29 (B)So we boiled my son and ate him; and I said to her on the next day, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him’; but she has hidden her son.”

⁹ I will make them ^(A)eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh in the siege and in the distress with which their enemies and those who seek their life will distress them.”’