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Lamentations 4:10 Cross-References
Explore 9 cross-references for Lamentations 4:10 from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, connecting Lamentations chapter 4 verse 10 to related passages throughout the Bible.
“The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.”
Lamentations 4:10 (KJV)
Commentary on Lamentations 4:10
The most horrific verse: "The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people" (yedei nashim rakhaniyot bishlu yaldeihen hayu le-varoth lamo be-shever bat-ami, יְדֵי נָשִׁים רַחֲמָנִיּוֹת בִּשְּׁלוּ יַלְדֵיהֶן הָיוּ לְבָרוֹת לָמוֹ בְּשֶׁבֶר בַּת־עַמִּי). The term rachamaniyot (רַחֲמָנִיּוֹת, "pitiful, compassionate") comes from the same root as God's compassion—making the contrast unbearable. Women naturally tender and maternal boiled their own children for food. This literally fulfilled Deuteronomy 28:53-57's curs...
Source: KJV Study Commentary
Cross-References for Lamentations 4:10
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“that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yes”
“Yahweh”
“there cried a woman to him”
“in the siege and in the distress”
“and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments on you; and the whole remnant of you will I scatter to all the winds.”
“and you will eat the flesh of your daughters.”
“they give suck to their young ones: The daughter of my people is become cruel”
“for the destruction of the daughter of my people.”
“the flesh of your sons and of your daughters”