Deuteronomy 28:51-57
28:51 They
will devour the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your soil until you are destroyed. They will not leave you with any grain, new wine, olive oil, calves of your herds,
or lambs of your flocks
until they have destroyed you.
28:52 They will besiege all of your villages
until all of your high and fortified walls collapse – those in which you put your confidence throughout the land. They will besiege all your villages throughout the land the
Lord your God has given you.
28:53 You will then eat your own offspring,
the flesh of the sons and daughters the
Lord your God has given you, because of the severity of the siege
by which your enemies will constrict you.
28:54 The man among you who is by nature tender and sensitive will turn against his brother, his beloved wife, and his remaining children.
28:55 He will withhold from all of them his children’s flesh that he is eating (since there is nothing else left), because of the severity of the siege by which your enemy will constrict
you in your villages.
28:56 Likewise, the most
tender and delicate of your women, who would never think of putting even the sole of her foot on the ground because of her daintiness,
will turn against her beloved husband, her sons and daughters,
28:57 and will secretly eat her afterbirth
and her newborn children
(since she has nothing else),
because of the severity of the siege by which your enemy will constrict you in your villages.
Deuteronomy 28:2
28:2 All these blessings will come to you in abundance
if you obey the
Lord your God:
Deuteronomy 25:1-3
25:1 If controversy arises between people, they should go to court for judgment. When the judges hear the case, they shall exonerate the innocent but condemn the guilty.
25:2 Then, if the guilty person is sentenced to a beating, the judge shall force him to lie down and be beaten in his presence with the number of blows his wicked behavior deserves.
25:3 The judge may sentence him to forty blows, but no more. If he is struck with more than these, you might view your fellow Israelite with contempt.
Ezekiel 21:21-22
21:21 For the king of Babylon stands at the fork
in the road at the head of the two routes. He looks for omens:
He shakes arrows, he consults idols,
he examines
animal livers.
21:22 Into his right hand
comes the portent for Jerusalem – to set up battering rams, to give the signal
for slaughter, to shout out the battle cry,
to set up battering rams against the gates, to erect a siege ramp, to build a siege wall.
Ezekiel 24:2
24:2 “Son of man, write down the name of this day, this very day. The king of Babylon has laid siege
to Jerusalem
this very day.
Luke 19:43-44
19:43 For the days will come upon you when your enemies will build
an embankment
against you and surround you and close in on you from every side.
19:44 They will demolish you
– you and your children within your walls
– and they will not leave within you one stone
on top of another,
because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God.”