2 Kings 6:27-29

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

²⁷ And he said, “If the Lord will not help you, whence shall I help you? From the threshing floor, or from the wine press?” ²⁸ And the king asked her, “What is your trouble?” She answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.’ ²⁹ So we boiled my son, and ate him. And on the next day I said to her, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him’; but she has hidden her son.”