Deuteronomy 28:53 BSB

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17 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְאָכַלְתָּ֣	ve.'a.khal.Ta	and you will eat	H398 →
פְרִֽי־	fe.ri-	[the] fruit of	H6529 →
בִטְנְךָ֗	vit.ne.Kha	womb your	H990 →
בְּשַׂ֤ר	be.Sar	[the] flesh of	H1320 →
בָּנֶ֙יךָ֙	ba.Nei.kha	sons your	H1121 →
וּבְנֹתֶ֔יךָ	u.ve.no.Tei.kha	and daughters your	H1323 →
אֲשֶׁ֥ר	'a.Sher	whom	H834 →
נָֽתַן־	na.tan-	he has given	H5414 →
לְךָ֖	le.Kha	to <the> you
יְהוָ֣ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
אֱלֹהֶ֑יךָ	'e.lo.Hei.kha	God your	H430 →
בְּמָצוֹר֙	be.ma.tzOr	in [the] siege	H4692 →
וּבְמָצ֔וֹק	u.ve.ma.Tzok	and in [the] distress	H4689 →
אֲשֶׁר־	'a.Sher-	which	H834 →
יָצִ֥יק	ya.Tzik	he will bring distress	H6693 →
לְךָ֖	le.Kha	to <the> you
אֹיְבֶֽךָ׃	'o.ye.Ve.kha	enemy your	H341 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Jeremiah 19:9
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.’
leads to
- 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.
  Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
- Ezekiel 5:10
  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.’
  Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
- Deuteronomy 28:53–57
  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…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Isaiah 9:20
  They carve out what is on the right, but they are still hungry; they eat what is on the left, but they are still not satisfied. Each one devours the flesh of his own…
- Leviticus 26:29
  You will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters.
Through
Lamentations 2:20
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?
leads to
- Jeremiah 19:9
  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.’
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
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.
leads to
- Lamentations 2:20
  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?
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Isaiah 49:15
  “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!

The gold bar shows how strongly the cross-reference sources tie the two verses together: a long bar means many compiled references make the connection, a short one means few.

Lamentations 4:10The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.Jeremiah 19:9I 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 26:29You will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters.Lamentations 2:20Look, 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?2 Kings 6:28–29Then 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.’Deuteronomy 28:57the afterbirth that comes from between her legs and the children she bears, because she will secretly eat them for lack of anything else in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you within your gates.Ezekiel 5:10As 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 28:55refusing to share with any of them the flesh of his children he will eat because he has nothing left in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you within all your gates.2 Kings 6:29So 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.”Deuteronomy 28:18The fruit of your womb will be cursed, as well as the produce of your land, the calves of your herds, and the lambs of your flocks.Matthew 24:19How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers!Deuteronomy 32:24They will be wasted from hunger and ravaged by pestilence and bitter plague; I will send the fangs of wild beasts against them, with the venom of vipers that slither in the dust.

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