Lamentations 2:20
See, O Jehovah, and behold to whom thou hast done thus! Shall the women eat their fruit, the children that are dandled in the hands? 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 in the distress, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their life, shall distress them.
- Lamentations 4:10 The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
- Psalm 78:64 Their priests fell by the sword; And their widows made no lamentation.