Deuteronomy 28:53

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And your food will be the fruit of your body, the flesh of the sons and daughters which the Lord your God has given you; because of your bitter need and the cruel grip of your haters.

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  • Lam 2:20 : 20 Look! O Lord, see to whom you have done this! Are the women to take as their food the fruit of their bodies, the children who are folded in their arms? are the priest and the prophet to be put to death in the holy place of the Lord?
  • Lam 4:10 : 10 The hands of kind-hearted women have been boiling their children; they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
  • Lev 26:29 : 29 Then you will take the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters for food;
  • 2 Kgs 6:28-29 : 28 And the king said to her, What is troubling you? And she said in answer, This woman said to me, Give your son to be our food today, and we will have my son tomorrow. 29 So, boiling my son, we had a meal of him; and on the day after I said to her, Now give your son for our food; but she has put her son in a secret place.
  • Jer 19:9 : 9 I will make them take the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters for food, they will be making a meal of one another, because of their bitter need and the cruel grip of their haters and those who have made designs against their life.
  • Deut 28:57 : 57 And to her baby newly come to birth, and to the children of her body; for having no other food, she will make a meal of them secretly, because of her bitter need and the cruel grip of your haters on all your towns.
  • Ezek 5:10 : 10 For this cause fathers will take their sons for food among you, and sons will make a meal of their fathers; and I will be judge among you, and all the rest of you I will send away to every wind.
  • Deut 28:55 : 55 And will not give to any of them the flesh of his children which will be his food because he has no other; in the cruel grip of your haters on all your towns.
  • Deut 28:18 : 18 A curse will be on the fruit of your body, and on the fruit of your land, on the increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock.
  • Matt 24:19 : 19 But it will be hard for women who are with child and for those with babies at the breast in those days.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 28:54-57
    4 verses
    88%

    54That man among you who is soft and used to comfort will be hard and cruel to his brother, and to his dear wife, and to of those his children who are still living;

    55And will not give to any of them the flesh of his children which will be his food because he has no other; in the cruel grip of your haters on all your towns.

    56The most soft and delicate of your women, who would not so much as put her foot on the earth, so delicate is she, will be hard-hearted to her husband and to her son and to her daughter;

    57And to her baby newly come to birth, and to the children of her body; for having no other food, she will make a meal of them secretly, because of her bitter need and the cruel grip of your haters on all your towns.

  • Lev 26:29
    86%

    29Then you will take the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters for food;

  • Jer 19:9
    82%

    9I will make them take the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters for food, they will be making a meal of one another, because of their bitter need and the cruel grip of their haters and those who have made designs against their life.

  • Deut 28:51-52
    2 verses
    80%

    51He will take the fruit of your cattle and of your land till death puts an end to you: he will let you have nothing of your grain or wine or oil or any of the increase of your cattle or the young of your flock, till he has made your destruction complete.

    52Your towns will be shut in by his armies, till your high walls, in which you put your faith, have come down: his armies will be round your towns, through all your land which the Lord your God has given you.

  • Jer 5:17
    79%

    17They will take all the produce of your fields, which would have been food for your sons and your daughters: they will take your flocks and your herds: they will take all your vines and your fig-trees: and with the sword they will make waste your walled towns in which you put your faith.

  • Deut 28:31-34
    4 verses
    77%

    31Your ox will be put to death before your eyes, but its flesh will not be your food: your ass will be violently taken away before your face, and will not be given back to you: your sheep will be given to your haters, and there will be no saviour for you.

    32Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people, and your eyes will be wasted away with looking and weeping for them all the day: and you will have no power to do anything.

    33The fruit of your land and all the work of your hands will be food for a nation which is strange to you and to your fathers; you will only be crushed down and kept under for ever:

    34So that the things which your eyes have to see will send you out of your minds.

  • Deut 28:41-42
    2 verses
    77%

    41You will have sons and daughters, but they will not be yours; for they will go away prisoners into a strange land.

    42All your trees and the fruit of your land will be the locust's.

  • Mic 6:14
    74%

    14You will have food, but not enough; your shame will be ever with you: you will get your goods moved, but you will not take them away safely; and what you do take away I will give to the sword.

  • Lev 26:38
    74%

    38And death will overtake you among strange nations, and the land of your haters will be your destruction.

  • Deut 28:48
    74%

    48For this cause you will become servants to those whom the Lord your God will send against you, without food and drink and clothing, and in need of all things: and he will put a yoke of iron on your neck till he has put an end to you.

  • Ezek 5:10
    74%

    10For this cause fathers will take their sons for food among you, and sons will make a meal of their fathers; and I will be judge among you, and all the rest of you I will send away to every wind.

  • Jer 16:3
    73%

    3For this is what the Lord has said about the sons and daughters who come to birth in this place, and about their mothers who have given them birth, and about their fathers who have given life to them in this land:

  • Deut 28:18
    73%

    18A curse will be on the fruit of your body, and on the fruit of your land, on the increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock.

  • Lam 4:10
    72%

    10The hands of kind-hearted women have been boiling their children; they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

  • Deut 12:18
    72%

    18But they will be your food before the Lord your God in the place of his selection, where you may make a feast of them, with your son and your daughter, and your man-servant and your woman-servant, and the Levite who is living with you: and you will have joy before the Lord your God in everything to which you put your hand.

  • Deut 12:20
    72%

    20When the Lord your God makes wide the limit of your land, as he has said, and you say, I will take flesh for my food, because you have a desire for it; then you may take whatever flesh you have a desire for.

  • Deut 20:13-14
    2 verses
    72%

    13And when the Lord your God has given it into your hands, let every male in it be put to death without mercy.

    14But the women and the children and the cattle and everything in the town and all its wealth, you may take for yourselves: the wealth of your haters, which the Lord your God has given you, will be your food.

  • Ezek 23:25
    72%

    25And my bitter feeling will be working against you, and they will take you in hand with passion; they will take away your nose and your ears, and the rest of you will be put to the sword: they will take your sons and daughters, and the rest of you will be burned up in the fire.

  • Ezek 16:20
    72%

    20And you took your sons and your daughters whom I had by you, offering even these to them to be their food. Was your loose behaviour so small a thing,

  • Isa 9:20
    72%

    20On the right a man was cutting off bits and was still in need; on the left a man took a meal but had not enough; no man had pity on his brother; every man was making a meal of the flesh of his neighbour.

  • Deut 28:11
    71%

    11And the Lord will make you fertile in every good thing, in the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your cattle, and the fruit of your fields, in the land which the Lord, by his oath to your fathers, said he would give you.

  • 2 Chr 21:14-15
    2 verses
    71%

    14Now, truly, the Lord will send a great destruction on your people and your children and your wives and everything which is yours:

    15And you yourself will undergo the cruel pains of a disease in your stomach, so that day by day your inside will be falling out because of the disease.

  • 2 Kgs 6:28-29
    2 verses
    71%

    28And the king said to her, What is troubling you? And she said in answer, This woman said to me, Give your son to be our food today, and we will have my son tomorrow.

    29So, boiling my son, we had a meal of him; and on the day after I said to her, Now give your son for our food; but she has put her son in a secret place.

  • Lev 10:14
    71%

    14And the breast which is waved and the leg which is lifted up on high, you are to take as your food in a clean place; you and your sons and your daughters with you: for they are given to you as your right and your sons' right, from the peace-offerings of the children of Israel.

  • Deut 12:25
    71%

    25Do not take it for food; so that it may be well for you and for your children after you, while you do what is right in the eyes of the Lord.

  • Lam 2:20
    71%

    20Look! O Lord, see to whom you have done this! Are the women to take as their food the fruit of their bodies, the children who are folded in their arms? are the priest and the prophet to be put to death in the holy place of the Lord?

  • Lev 26:16
    70%

    16This will I do to you: I will put fear in your hearts, even wasting disease and burning pain, drying up the eyes and making the soul feeble, and you will get no profit from your seed, for your haters will take it for food.

  • Deut 28:25-26
    2 verses
    70%

    25The Lord will let you be overcome by your haters: you will go out against them one way, and you will go in flight before them seven ways: you will be the cause of fear among all the kingdoms of the earth.

    26Your bodies will be meat for all the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth; there will be no one to send them away.

  • Isa 39:7
    70%

    7And your sons, even your offspring, will they take away to be unsexed servants in the house of the king of Babylon.

  • Nah 3:13
    70%

    13See, the people who are in you are women; the doorways of your land are wide open to your attackers: the locks of your doors have been burned away in the fire.

  • Ezek 16:27
    70%

    27Now, then, my hand is stretched out against you, cutting down your fixed amount, and I have given you up to the desire of your haters, the daughters of the Philistines who are shamed by your loose ways.

  • Amos 7:17
    70%

    17So this is what the Lord has said: Your wife will be a loose woman in the town, and your sons and your daughters will be put to the sword, and your land will be cut up into parts by a line; and you yourself will come to your end in an unclean land, and Israel will certainly be taken away a prisoner out of his land.

  • Deut 28:4
    69%

    4A blessing will be on the fruit of your body, and on the fruit of your land, on the fruit of your cattle, the increase of your herd, and the young of your flock.

  • Isa 3:25
    69%

    25Your men will be put to the sword, and your men of war will come to destruction in the fight.

  • 2 Kgs 20:18
    69%

    18And your sons, the offspring of your body, they will take away to be unsexed servants in the house of the king of Babylon.

  • Isa 51:19
    69%

    19These two things have come on you; who will be weeping for you? wasting and destruction; death from need of food, and from the sword; how may you be comforted?