Deuteronomy 28:33-34
33A nation that you have not known shall eat up the fruit of your ground and of all your labors, and you shall be only oppressed and crushed continually, 34so that you are driven mad aby the sights that your eyes see.Deuteronomy 28:53-57
53And byou shall eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your sons and daughters, whom the Lord your God has given you, cin the siege and in the distress with which your enemies shall distress you. 54The man who is the most tender and refined among you will dbegrudge food to his brother, to ethe wife he embraces, ▼▼Hebrew the wife of his bosom
and to the last of the children whom he has left, 55so 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, gin the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in all your towns. 56 hThe 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, ▼▼Hebrew the husband of her bosom
to her son and to her daughter, 57her afterbirth that comes out from between her feet and her children whom she bears, because lacking everything she will eat them secretly, jin the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in your towns. 2 Kings 25:3
3On the ninth day of the fourth month kthe famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.Isaiah 9:20
20 lThey slice meat on the right, but are still hungry,and they devour on the left, but are not satisfied;
meach devours the flesh of his own arm,
Jeremiah 14:18
18 nIf I go out into the field,behold, those pierced by the sword!
oAnd if I enter the city,
behold, the diseases of famine!
pFor both prophet and priest ply their trade through the land
and have no knowledge.’”
Jeremiah 52:6
6On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.Lamentations 4:4-5
4 The tongue of the nursing infant qsticksto the roof of its mouth for thirst;
rthe children beg for food,
but no one gives to them.
5 Those who once feasted on delicacies
perish in the streets;
sthose who were brought up in purple
embrace ash heaps.
Lamentations 4:9-10
9 Happier were the victims of the swordthan the victims of hunger,
who wasted away, pierced
by lack of the fruits of the field.
10 tThe hands of ucompassionate women
vhave boiled their own children;
wthey became their food
during the destruction of the daughter of my people.
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