Deuteronomy 28:56-57
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.
Lamentations 2:19-20
ק (Qof)
2:19 Get up! Cry out in the night
when the night watches start!
Pour out your heart like water
before the face of the Lord!
Lift up your hands to him
for your children’s lives;
they are fainting
at every street corner.
Jerusalem Speaks:
ר (Resh)
2:20 Look, O Lord! Consider!
Whom have you ever afflicted like this?
Should women eat their offspring,
their healthy infants?
Should priest and prophet
be killed in the Lord’s sanctuary?
Lamentations 4:3-4
ג (Gimel)
4:3 Even the jackals nurse their young
at their breast,
but my people are cruel,
like ostriches in the desert.
ד (Dalet)
4:4 The infant’s tongue sticks
to the roof of its mouth due to thirst;
little children beg for bread,
but no one gives them even a morsel.
Lamentations 4:10
י (Yod)
4:10 The hands of tenderhearted women
cooked their own children,
who became their food,
when my people were destroyed.
Hosea 9:14
9:14 Give them, O Lord –
what will you give them?
Give them wombs that miscarry,
and breasts that cannot nurse!
Hosea 13:16
13:16 (14:1) Samaria will be held guilty,
because she rebelled against her God.
They will fall by the sword,
their infants will be dashed to the ground –
their pregnant women will be ripped open.
Matthew 24:19-21
24:19 Woe
to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing their babies in those days!
24:20 Pray
that your flight may not be in winter or on a Sabbath.
24:21 For then there will be great suffering
unlike anything that has happened
from the beginning of the world until now, or ever will happen.
Luke 21:23
21:23 Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing their babies in those days! For there will be great distress
on the earth and wrath against this people.
Luke 23:29
23:29 For this is certain:
The days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore children, and the breasts that never nursed!’