Lamentations 2:20
"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?"
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- 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."
Read in chapter → - Lamentations 4:10
"The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people."
Read in chapter → - Psalms 78:64
"Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation."
Read in chapter → - Exodus 32:11
"And Moses besought the LORD his God, and said, LORD, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand?"
Read in chapter → - Lamentations 4:13
"For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,"
Read in chapter → - Deuteronomy 9:26
"I prayed therefore unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, destroy not thy people and thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed through thy greatness, which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand."
Read in chapter → - Lamentations 4:16
"The anger of the LORD hath divided them; he will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they favoured not the elders."
Read in chapter → - Ezekiel 9:5
"And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity:"
Read in chapter → - Lamentations 1:19
"I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat to relieve their souls."
Read in chapter → - Isaiah 9:14
"Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day."
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