Lamentations 4:3
"Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness."
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- Luke 23:28
"But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children."
Read in chapter → - Ezekiel 5:10
"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."
Read in chapter → - 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?"
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 → - Job 39:13
"Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?"
Read in chapter → - 2 Kings 6:26
"And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman unto him, saying, Help, my lord, O king."
Read in chapter → - Leviticus 26:29
"And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat."
Read in chapter → - Deuteronomy 28:52
"And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the LORD thy God hath given thee."
Read in chapter → - 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 → - Romans 1:31
"Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:"
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