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I’ll shatter[a] the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place, and I’ll make them fall by the sword before their enemies and at the hands of those seeking their lives. I’ll give their dead bodies as food to the birds of the sky and to the animals of the land. I’ll make this city into a desolate place and an object of scorn.[b] All who pass by it will be astonished and will scoff[c] because of all its wounds. I’ll cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and daughters,[d] and people will eat the flesh of their neighbors in the siege and in the distress to which their enemies and those seeking their lives will subject them.”’”

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 19:7 Or nullify; MT word for shatter sounds like MT word for jug in v. 1
  2. Jeremiah 19:8 Lit. hissing
  3. Jeremiah 19:8 Lit. hiss; i.e. hissing was an expression of contempt
  4. Jeremiah 19:9 Lit. sons and the flesh of their daughters