Lamentations 4:10

The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Cross-reference

Lamentations 4:3 contrasts jackals nursing with the people's heartlessness, while this verse shows the horrific result — women cooking their own children.

Lamentations 2:20 asks rhetorically whether women should eat their children, directly referencing the same cannibalism described here during the siege.

Lamentations 2:11 weeps over children fainting in streets; 4:10 reports mothers boiling them. Both depict extreme child suffering during the siege.

Deuteronomy 28:57 Prophetic fulfillment

Deuteronomy 28:57 directly predicts mothers eating their afterbirth and children secretly — the curse now realized here.

2 Kings 6:26–29 Historical context

2 Kings 6:26-29 records the same horror during Samaria's siege — women boiling their own children — confirming this was a known curse.

2 Kings 6:29 gives a specific account of a woman who boiled and ate her son — a parallel event from another siege.

Isaiah 49:15 speaks of a mother's unfailing compassion for her child — the opposite of what is happening here.

Leviticus 26:29 Prophetic fulfillment

Leviticus 26:29 is the covenant curse that warns of eating sons and daughters — here it is literally happening.

Deuteronomy 28:53 Prophetic fulfillment

Deuteronomy 28:53 predicts eating the flesh of sons and daughters in siege — Lamentations 4:10 shows this fulfilled.

2 Kings 6:28 records a mother's plea to eat her son — mirroring the same desperate act in Jerusalem.

Isaiah 9:20 Parallel

Isaiah 9:20 depicts people devouring their own flesh, directly parallel to mothers boiling children in Lamentations 4:10—both show cannibalism in judgment.

Jeremiah 19:9 Prophetic fulfillment

Jeremiah 19:9 prophesies people eating their children's flesh in siege—a direct parallel to the horror described in Lamentations 4:10.

Ezekiel 5:10 Prophetic fulfillment

Ezekiel 5:10 explicitly prophesies fathers eating sons—the very horror Lamentations 4:10 reports as fulfilled.