Deuteronomy 28:52-57
52“They shall abesiege you in all your towns, until your high and fortified walls, in which you trusted, come down throughout all your land. And they shall besiege you in all your towns throughout all your land, which the Lord your God has given you. 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 6:25
25And there was a great famine in Samaria, as they besieged it, until a donkey’s head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and the fourth part of a kab ▼ of dove’s dung for five shekels of silver.Jeremiah 19:9
9 lAnd I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and their daughters, and everyone shall eat the flesh of his neighbor min the siege and in the distress, with which their enemies and those who seek their life afflict them.’Jeremiah 38:9
9“My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they did to Jeremiah the prophet by casting him into the cistern, and he will die there of nhunger, ofor there is no bread left in the city.”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 1:19
19 “I called to pmy lovers,but they deceived me;
my priests and elders
perished in the city,
while qthey sought food
to revive their strength.
Lamentations 2:12
12 They cry to their mothers,r“Where is bread and wine?”
sas they faint like a wounded man
in the streets of the city,
as their life is poured out
on their mothers’ bosom.
Lamentations 4:4-10
4 The tongue of the nursing infant tsticksto the roof of its mouth for thirst;
uthe children beg for food,
but no one gives to them.
5 Those who once feasted on delicacies
perish in the streets;
vthose who were brought up in purple
embrace ash heaps.
6 wFor the chastisement ▼
▼Or iniquity
of the daughter of my people has been greaterthan the punishment ▼
▼Or sin
of Sodom,zwhich was overthrown in a moment,
and no hands were wrung for her. ▼
▼The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
7 Her princes were purer than snow,
whiter than milk;
their bodies were more ruddy than coral,
the beauty of their form ▼
▼The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
was like sapphire. ▼▼Hebrew lapis lazuli
8 adNow their face is blacker than soot;
they are not recognized in the streets;
their skin has shriveled on their bones;
it has become as dry as wood.
9 Happier were the victims of the sword
than the victims of hunger,
who wasted away, pierced
by lack of the fruits of the field.
10 aeThe hands of afcompassionate women
aghave boiled their own children;
ahthey became their food
during the destruction of the daughter of my people.
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