9And 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.
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And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm:
And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.
The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Therefore 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.
And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman unto him, saying, Help, my lord, O king. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-9)The corruption of man having made it necessary that precept should be upon precept, and line upon line (so unapt are we to receive, and so very apt to let slip, the things of God), the grace of God has provided that there shall be, accordingly, precept upon precept, and line upon line , that those who are irreclaimable may be inexcusable. For this reason the prophet is here sent with a message to…
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