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Selected Verse: Jeremiah 19:9 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Jer 19:9 |
King James |
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. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| (Deu 28:53; Lam 4:10). |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons - This was literally fulfilled when Jerusalem was besieged by the Romans. This also the prophet might have had in view. |
10 The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
53 And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the LORD thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee: