10Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter into all the winds.
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Ho, ho, come forth, and flee from the land of the north, saith the LORD: for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heaven, saith the LORD.
And I will scatter toward every wind all that are about him to help him, and all his bands; and I will draw out the sword after them.
And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.
And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone.
And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-17)We have here the explanation of the foregoing similitude: This is Jerusalem . Thus it is usual in scripture language to give the name of the thing signified to the sign; as when Christ said, This is my body . The prophet’s head, which was to be shaved, signified Jerusalem, which by the judgments of God was now to be stripped of all its ornaments, to be emptied of all its inhabitants, and to be set…
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