Cross references
Lamentations 4:10
The hands of compassionate women
have cooked their own children,
who became their food
in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Lamentations 4:10 has 9 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 4 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to 2 Kings 6:26–29 (5 votes) and Isaiah 49:15 (5 votes). 32 other verses point back to it. It links with 11 other books, from Genesis 41 to Luke 21.
Which verses does Lamentations 4:10 point to?
Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- 2 Kings 6:26–295 votes
As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, “Help me, my lord the king!” He answered, “If the LORD does not help you, where can I find help for you? From the threshing floor or the winepress?” …
- Isaiah 49:155 votes
“Can a woman forget her nursing child, or lack compassion for the son of her womb? Even if she could forget, I will not forget you!
- Lamentations 2:205 votes
Look, O LORD, and consider: Whom have You ever treated like this? Should women eat their offspring, the infants they have nurtured? Should priests and prophets be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
- Jeremiah 19:94 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.’
- Leviticus 26:293 votes
You will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters.
- Lamentations 3:483 votes
Streams of tears flow from my eyes over the destruction of the daughter of my people.
- Lamentations 4:33 votes
Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young, but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like an ostrich in the wilderness.
- Ezekiel 5:103 votes
As a result, fathers among you will eat their sons, and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments against you and scatter all your remnant to every wind.’
- Deuteronomy 28:53–571 vote
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, …
Which verses point to Lamentations 4:10?
The 10 strongest of 32.