Lamentations 2:20

Which verses does Lamentations 2:20 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

1. Jeremiah 19:95 votes

   I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh in the siege and distress inflicted on them by their enemies who seek their lives.’

2. Lamentations 4:105 votes

   The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

3. Psalm 78:644 votes

   His priests fell by the sword, but their widows could not lament.

4. Exodus 32:113 votes

   But Moses sought the favor of the LORD his God, saying, “O LORD, why does Your anger burn against Your people, whom You brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and a mighty hand?

5. Deuteronomy 9:263 votes

   And I prayed to the LORD and said, “O Lord GOD, do not destroy Your people, Your inheritance, whom You redeemed through Your greatness and brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

6. Lamentations 4:133 votes

   But this was for the sins of her prophets and the guilt of her priests, who shed the blood of the righteous in her midst.

7. Leviticus 26:292 votes

   You will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters.

8. Deuteronomy 28:53–572 votes

   Then you will eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you. The most gentle and refined man among you will begrudge his brother, the wife he embraces, and the rest of his children who have survived, …

9. 2 Kings 6:28–292 votes

   Then the king asked her, “What is the matter?” And she answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give up your son, that we may eat him, and tomorrow we will eat my son.’ So we boiled my son and ate him, and the next day I said to her, ‘Give up your son, that we may eat him.’ But she had hidden her son.”

10. Isaiah 9:14–172 votes

    So the LORD will cut off Israel’s head and tail, both palm branch and reed in a single day. The head is the elder and honorable man, and the tail is the prophet who teaches lies. …

11. Isaiah 63:16–192 votes
12. Isaiah 64:8–122 votes
13. Jeremiah 5:312 votes

    The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority. My people love it so, but what will you do in the end?

14. Jeremiah 14:15–182 votes
15. Jeremiah 14:20–212 votes
16. Jeremiah 23:11–152 votes
17. Lamentations 1:192 votes
18. Lamentations 4:162 votes

    The presence of the LORD has scattered them; He regards them no more. The priests are shown no honor; the elders find no favor.

19. Ezekiel 5:102 votes
20. Ezekiel 9:5–62 votes

Which verses point to Lamentations 2:20?

The 10 strongest of 35.

• Deuteronomy 28:53 6
• Lamentations 4:10 5
• Lamentations 1:19 4
• Lamentations 4:3 4
• Deuteronomy 28:16 3
• Deuteronomy 28:18 3
• Isaiah 22:2 3
• Jeremiah 12:7 3
• Jeremiah 19:9 3
• Lamentations 2:11 3