2 Kings 6:29-31

New English Translation

²⁹ So we boiled my son and ate him. Then I said to her the next day, ‘Hand over your son and we’ll eat him.’ But she hid her son!” ³⁰ When the king heard what the woman said, he tore his clothes. As he was passing by on the wall, the people could see he was wearing sackcloth under his clothes.^{[a] 31} Then he said, “May God judge me severely^[b] if Elisha son of Shaphat still has his head by the end of the day!”^[c]