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They will hear the hoofbeats of horses, the clatter of chariots, the rumble of wheels. Parents will not turn back for their children; their hands will hang limp at their sides.

"Moab has been destroyed; listen to the children crying.

So listen to the plan that I have made against the people of Edom, and to what I intend to do to the people of the city of Teman. Even their children will be dragged off, and everyone will be horrified.

So listen to the plan that I have made against the city of Babylon and to what I intend to do to its people. Even their children will be dragged off, and everyone will be horrified.

Her enemies succeeded; they hold her in their power. The Lord has made her suffer for all her many sins; Her children have been captured and taken away.

My eyes are worn out with weeping; my soul is in anguish. I am exhausted with grief at the destruction of my people. Children and babies are fainting in the streets of the city.

All through the night get up again and again to cry out to the Lord; Pour out your heart and beg him for mercy on your children— Children starving to death on every street corner!

Look, O Lord ! Why are you punishing us like this? Women are eating the bodies of the children they loved! Priests and prophets are being killed in the Temple itself

You invited my enemies to hold a carnival of terror all around me, And no one could escape on that day of your anger. They murdered my children, whom I had raised and loved.

They let their babies die of hunger and thirst; children are begging for food that no one will give them.

The disaster that came to my people brought horror; loving mothers boiled their own children for food.

As a result, parents in Jerusalem will eat their children, and children will eat their parents. I will punish you and scatter in every direction any who are left alive.

I will send hunger and wild animals to kill your children, and will send sickness, violence, and war to kill you. I, the Lord , have spoken."

Kill the old men, young men, young women, mothers, and children. But don't touch anyone who has the mark on his forehead. Start here at my Temple." So they began with the leaders who were standing there at the Temple.

and even if those three men lived there—as surely as I, the Sovereign Lord , am the living God—they would not be able to save even their own children. They would save only their own lives, and the land would become a wilderness.

and even if those three men lived there—as surely as I, the Sovereign Lord , am the living God—they would not be able to save even their children, but only their own lives.

even if Noah, Danel, and Job lived there—as surely as I, the Sovereign Lord , am the living God—they would not be able to save even their own children. Their goodness would save only their own lives."

If some survive and save their children, look at them when they come to you. See how evil they are, and be convinced that the punishment I am bringing on Jerusalem is justified;

without taking my children and sacrificing them to idols?

This is what the Sovereign Lord says: "You stripped off your clothes, and like a prostitute, you gave yourself to your lovers and to all your disgusting idols, and you killed your children as sacrifices to idols.