Jeremiah 19:9

And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.

And I will cause them to eat {H398} the flesh {H1320} of their sons {H1121} and the flesh {H1320} of their daughters {H1323}, and they shall eat {H398} every one {H376} the flesh {H1320} of his friend {H7453} in the siege {H4692} and straitness {H4689}, wherewith their enemies {H341}, and they that seek {H1245} their lives {H5315}, shall straiten {H6693} them.

I will cause them to eat the flesh of their own sons and daughters; everyone will be eating the flesh of his friends during the siege, because of the shortage imposed on them by their enemies and those set on killing them."'

I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh in the siege and distress inflicted on them by their enemies who seek their lives.’

And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters; and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend, in the siege and in the distress, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their life, shall distress them.

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Cross-References

  • Isaiah 9:20 (6 votes)

    And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm:

  • Leviticus 26:29 (5 votes)

    And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.

  • Lamentations 4:10 (5 votes)

    The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

  • Ezekiel 5:10 (4 votes)

    Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter into all the winds.

  • Deuteronomy 28:53 (3 votes)

    And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the LORD thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee:

  • Deuteronomy 28:57 (3 votes)

    And toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all [things] secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates.

  • Lamentations 2:20 (3 votes)

    Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, [and] children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?