Deuteronomy 28:52-57
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52 They will besiege you in each of your communities, until the great, fortified walls, in which you trust, come tumbling down all over your land. They will besiege you in every community throughout the land which the Lord, your God, has given you, 53 (A)and because of the siege and the distress to which your enemy subjects you, you will eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your own sons and daughters whom the Lord, your God, has given you. 54 The most refined and fastidious man among you will begrudge his brother and his beloved wife and his surviving children, 55 any share in the flesh of his children that he himself is using for food because nothing else is left him—such the siege and distress to which your enemy will subject you in all your communities. 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 6:28-29
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28 Then the king asked her, “What is your trouble?” She replied: “This woman said to me, ‘Give up your son that we may eat him today; then tomorrow we will eat my son.’ 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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Jeremiah 19:9
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9 I will have them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters; they shall eat one another’s flesh during the harsh siege under which their enemies and those who seek their lives will confine them.(A)
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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)
Lamentations 4:10
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10 The hands of compassionate women
have boiled their own children!
They became their food
when the daughter of my people was shattered.(A)
Ezekiel 5:10
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10 Therefore, parents will eat their children in your midst, and children will eat their parents.[a] I will inflict punishments upon you and scatter all who remain to the winds.(A)
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Daniel 9:12
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12 He fulfilled the words he spoke against us and against those who ruled us, by bringing upon us an evil—no evil so great has happened under heaven as happened in Jerusalem.
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