Deuteronomy 28:53-57
offspring <06529> [the fruit.]
offspring <0990> [body. Heb. belly.]
<05869> [his eye.]
wife .... remaining <0802 03499> [and toward.]
The Roman armies at length besieged, sacked, and utterly desolated Jerusalem: and during this seige, the famine was so extreme, that even rich and delicate persons, both men and women, ate their own children, and concealed the horrible repast, lest others should tear it from them! "Women snatched the food out of the very mouths of their husbands, and sons of their fathers, and (what is most miserable) mothers of their infants." "In every house, if there appeared any semblance of food, a battle ensued, and the dearest friends and relations fought with one another; snatching away the miserable provisions of life." "A woman distinguished by birth and wealth, after she had been plundered by the tyrants (or soldiers) of all her possessions, boiling her own sucking child, ate half of him, and concealing the other half, reserved it for another time!"
children <01121> [his children.]
[in the seige.]
delicate <06028> [and delicate.]
<05869 03415> [her eye shall be evil.]
afterbirth <07988> [young one. Heb. after-birth. cometh out.]
eat <0398> [for she shall.]
Deuteronomy 28:2
come ..... abundance <0935 05381> [come on thee.]
Deuteronomy 6:1
commandments <04687> [the commandments.]
headed <03423 05674> [go to possess it. Heb. pass over.]
Deuteronomy 6:1
commandments <04687> [the commandments.]
headed <03423 05674> [go to possess it. Heb. pass over.]
Jeremiah 19:9
eat ... flesh .......... flesh <0398 01320> [eat the.]
Lamentations 2:20
Consider <05027> [consider.]
women <0802> [Shall the women.]
healthy <02949> [of a span long. or, swaddled with their hands. shall the priest.]
Lamentations 4:10
hands <03027> [hands.]
tenderhearted <07362> [pitiful.]
destroyed <07667> [in.]
Ezekiel 5:10
fathers .............. fathers <01> [the fathers.]
survivors <07611> [the whole.]
Matthew 24:19
Luke 23:29
days <2250> [the days.]
Our Lord here refers to the destruction of Jerusalem, and the final desolation of the Jewish state; an evil associated with so many miseries, that sterility, which had otherwise been considered an opprobrium, was accounted a circumstance most felicitous. No history can furnish us with a parallel to the calamities and miseries of the Jews; rapine and murder, famine and pestilence, within; fire and sword, and all the terrors of war, without. Our Saviour himself wept at the foresight of these calamities; and it is almost impossible for persons of any humanity to read the relation of them in Josephus without weeping also. He might justly affirm, "if the misfortunes of all, from the beginning of the world, were compared with those of the Jews, they would appear much inferior in the comparison."
Blessed <3107> [Blessed.]
