Jeremia 19:9

Lutherbibel

Ich will sie lassen ihrer Söhne und Töchter Fleisch fressen, und einer soll des andern Fleisch fressen in der Not und Angst, damit sie ihre Feinde und die, so nach ihrem Leben stehen, bedrängen werden.

Parallel Translations

Schlachter Bibel (1951)
Und ich will ihnen das Fleisch ihrer Söhne und ihrer Töchter zu essen geben, daß einer des andern Fleisch fressen soll in der Angst und Not, mit der ihre Feinde und die, welche ihnen nach dem Leben trachten, sie bedrängen werden.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

eat the: Leviticus 26:29, Deuteronomy 28:53-57, 2 Kings 6:26-29, Isaiah 9:20, Lamentations 2:20, Lamentations 4:10, Ezekiel 5:10

Reciprocal: Isaiah 36:12 - that they may Jeremiah 13:14 - I will dash Jeremiah 52:6 - the famine Lamentations 1:11 - seek Lamentations 3:51 - the daughters Lamentations 4:3 - the daughter Zechariah 11:9 - and let James 5:3 - and shall

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons, and the flesh of their daughters,.... For want of food; the famine should be so great and pressing. Jeremiah, that foretells this, was a witness of it, and has left it on record, Lamentations 4:10;

and they shall eat everyone the flesh of his friend. The Targum interprets it, the goods or substance of his neighbour; which is sometimes the sense of eating the flesh of another; but as it is to be taken in a literal sense, in the preceding clause, so in this: so it should be,

in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them; the siege of Jerusalem should be so close, that no provision could be got in to the relief of the inhabitants; which obliged them to take the shocking methods before mentioned. Jerom observes, that though this was fulfilled at the Babylonish captivity, yet more fully when Jerusalem was besieged by Vespasian and Titus, and in the times of Hadrian. Josephus q gives us a most shocking relation of a woman eating her own son.

q De Bello Jud. l. 6. c. 3. sect. 4.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 19:9. I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons — This was literally fulfilled when Jerusalem was besieged by the Romans. This also the prophet might have had in view.