29And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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.
The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.
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. 14-39)After God had set the blessing before them (the life and good which would make them a happy people if they would be obedient), he here sets the curse before them, the death and evil which would make them as miserable if they were disobedient. Let them not think themselves so deeply rooted as that God’s power could not ruin them, nor so highly favoured as that his justice would not ruin them if the…
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