THEOSISTheodoret of Cyrus
The necessity of hunger surpassed the natural fortitude of the heart. This is what the Lord allowed to happen to Zion in His just wrath.
Lamentations 4:10Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Jod. The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
יְדֵ֗י נָשִׁים֙ רַחֲמָ֣נִיּ֔וֹת בִּשְּׁל֖וּ יַלְדֵיהֶ֑ן הָי֤וּ לְבָרוֹת֙ לָ֔מוֹ בְּשֶׁ֖בֶר בַּת־עַמִּֽי׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Lam 2:20Res. Behold, O Lord, and consider whom thou hast thus dealt with: shall women then eat their own fruit, their children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?
- Isa 49:15Can a woman forget her infant, so as not to have pity on the son of her womb? and if she should forget, yet will not I forget thee.
- Jer 19:9And I will feed them with the flesh of their sons, and with the flesh of their daughters: and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege, and in the distress wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.
- Ezek 5:10Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers: and I will execute judgments in thee, and I will scatter thy whole remnant into every wind.
- Lam 4:3Ghimel. Even the sea monsters have drawn out the breast, they have given suck to their young: the daughter of my people is cruel, like the ostrich in the desert.
- Lev 26:29So that you shall eat the flesh of your sons and of your daughters.
- Lam 3:48Phe. My eye hath run down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
- Deut 28:53And thou shalt eat the fruit of thy womb, and the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the Lord thy God shall give thee, in the distress and extremity wherewith thy enemy shall oppress thee.