29 Further, (A)you will eat the flesh of your sons, and you will eat the flesh of your daughters.

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28 Then the king said to her, “(A)What [a]is on your mind?” And she said, “This woman said to me, ‘Give your son so that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.’ 29 (B)So we cooked my son and ate him; and I said to her on the next day, ‘Give your son, so that we may eat him’; but she has hidden her son.”

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 6:28 Lit to you

And I will make them (A)eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh during the siege and in the hardship with which their enemies and those who seek their life will torment them.”’

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20 See, Lord, and look!
With (A)whom have You dealt this way?
Should women really (B)eat their [a]children,
The little ones who were [b]born healthy?
Should (C)priest and prophet really be killed
In the sanctuary of the Lord?

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 2:20 Lit fruit
  2. Lamentations 2:20 Or tenderly cared for

10 The hands of compassionate women
(A)Boiled their own children;
They became (B)food for them
Due to the destruction of the daughter of my people.

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