Watchtower ONLINE LIBRARY

Watchtower ONLINE LIBRARY

Deuteronomy 28:53

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
- 53 Then you will have to eat the fruit of your belly, the flesh of your sons and your daughters,+ whom Jehovah your God has given you, because of the tightness and stress with which your enemy will hem you in.

2 Kings 6:29

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
- 29 Accordingly we boiled+ my son and ate him.+ Then I said to her on the next day, ‘Give your son that we may eat him.’ But she hid her son.”

Jeremiah 19:9

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
- 9 And I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters; and they will eat each one the flesh of his fellowman, because of the tightness and because of the stress with which their enemies and those seeking for their soul will hem them in.”’+

Lamentations 2:20

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
- 20 See, O Jehovah, and do look+ to the one to whom you have dealt severely in this manner.
  Should the women keep eating their own fruitage, the children born fully formed,+
  Or in the sanctuary of Jehovah* should priest and prophet be killed?+

Lamentations 4:10

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
- 10 The very hands of compassionate women have boiled their own children.+
  They have become as bread of consolation to one during the breakdown of the daughter of my people.+

Ezekiel 5:10

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
- 10 “‘“Therefore fathers themselves will eat sons in the midst of you,+ and sons themselves will eat their fathers, and I will execute in you acts of judgment and scatter all the remainder of you to every wind.”’*+