What does Leviticus 26:29 mean?

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Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

• Lamentations 4:10

  The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

• 2 Kings 6:28

  And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, This woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we may eat him to-day, and we will eat my son to-morrow.

• Matthew 24:19

  But woe unto them that are with child and to them that give suck in those days!

• Luke 23:29

  For behold, the days are coming, in which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the breasts that never gave suck.

• Lamentations 2:20

  See, O Jehovah, and behold to whom thou hast done thus! Shall the women eat their fruit, the children that are dandled in the hands? Shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?

• Jeremiah 19:9

  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 in the distress, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their life, shall distress them.

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