Isaiah 9:20

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

They devoured on the right, but were still hungry, they ate on the left, but were not satisfied. People even ate the flesh of their own arm!

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 49:26 : 26 I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh; they will get drunk on their own blood, as if it were wine. Then all humankind will recognize that I am the LORD, your deliverer, your protector, the Powerful One of Jacob.”
  • Jer 19:9 : 9 I will reduce the people of this city to desperate straits during the siege imposed on it by their enemies who are seeking to kill them. I will make them so desperate that they will eat the flesh of their own sons and daughters and the flesh of one another.”’”
  • Lam 4:10 : 10 י(Yod) The hands of tenderhearted women cooked their own children, who became their food, when my people were destroyed.
  • Lev 26:26-29 : 26 When I break off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven; they will ration your bread by weight, and you will eat and not be satisfied. 27 “‘If in spite of this you do not obey me but walk in hostility against me, 28 I will walk in hostile rage against you and I myself will also discipline you seven times on account of your sins. 29 You will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters.
  • Isa 8:21 : 21 They will pass through the land destitute and starving. Their hunger will make them angry, and they will curse their king and their God as they look upward.

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    21Manasseh fought against Ephraim, and Ephraim against Manasseh; together they fought against Judah. Despite all this, his anger does not subside, and his hand is ready to strike again.

  • Mic 6:14
    77%

    14You will eat, but not be satisfied. Even if you have the strength to overtake some prey, you will not be able to carry it away; if you do happen to carry away something, I will deliver it over to the sword.

  • Isa 9:19
    77%

    19Because of the anger of the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the land was scorched, and the people became fuel for the fire. People had no compassion on one another.

  • Jer 19:9
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    9I will reduce the people of this city to desperate straits during the siege imposed on it by their enemies who are seeking to kill them. I will make them so desperate that they will eat the flesh of their own sons and daughters and the flesh of one another.”’”

  • Mic 3:3
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    3You devour my people’s flesh, strip off their skin, and crush their bones. You chop them up like flesh in a pot– like meat in a kettle.

  • Job 18:12
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    12Calamity is hungry for him, and misfortune is ready at his side.

  • Zech 14:12-13
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    12But this will be the nature of the plague with which the LORD will strike all the nations that have fought against Jerusalem: Their flesh will decay while they stand on their feet, their eyes will rot away in their sockets, and their tongues will dissolve in their mouths.

    13On that day there will be great confusion from the LORD among them; they will seize each other and attack one another violently.

  • Deut 28:53-55
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    53You will then eat your own offspring, the flesh of the sons and daughters the LORD your God has given you, because of the severity of the siege by which your enemies will constrict you.

    54The man among you who is by nature tender and sensitive will turn against his brother, his beloved wife, and his remaining children.

    55He will withhold from all of them his children’s flesh that he is eating(since there is nothing else left), because of the severity of the siege by which your enemy will constrict you in your villages.

  • Lev 26:29
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    29You will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters.

  • Isa 9:12
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    12Syria from the east, and the Philistines from the west, they gobbled up Israelite territory. Despite all this, his anger does not subside, and his hand is ready to strike again.

  • Zech 11:9
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    9I then said,“I will not shepherd you. What is to die, let it die, and what is to be eradicated, let it be eradicated. As for those who survive, let them eat each other’s flesh!”

  • Job 20:21-23
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    21“Nothing is left for him to devour; that is why his prosperity does not last.

    22In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress overtakes him. The full force of misery will come upon him.

    23“While he is filling his belly, God sends his burning anger against him, and rains down his blows upon him.

  • Jer 5:17
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    17They will eat up your crops and your food. They will kill off your sons and your daughters. They will eat up your sheep and your cattle. They will destroy your vines and your fig trees. Their weapons will batter down the fortified cities you trust in.

  • Dan 11:26
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    26Those who share the king’s fine food will attempt to destroy him, and his army will be swept away; many will be killed in battle.

  • Lev 26:38
    72%

    38You will perish among the nations; the land of your enemies will consume you.

  • Ezek 4:17
    72%

    17because they will lack bread and water. Each one will be terrified, and they will rot for their iniquity.

  • Isa 8:21
    72%

    21They will pass through the land destitute and starving. Their hunger will make them angry, and they will curse their king and their God as they look upward.

  • Jer 30:16
    72%

    16But all who destroyed you will be destroyed. All your enemies will go into exile. Those who plundered you will be plundered. I will cause those who pillaged you to be pillaged.

  • Isa 13:14-15
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    14Like a frightened gazelle or a sheep with no shepherd, each will turn toward home, each will run to his homeland.

    15Everyone who is caught will be stabbed; everyone who is seized will die by the sword.

  • Lam 4:9-10
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    72%

    9ט(Tet) Those who died by the sword are better off than those who die of hunger, those who waste away, struck down from lack of food.

    10י(Yod) The hands of tenderhearted women cooked their own children, who became their food, when my people were destroyed.

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    5The fool folds his hands and does no work, so he has nothing to eat but his own flesh.

  • Ezek 5:10
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    10Therefore fathers will eat their sons within you, Jerusalem, and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments on you, and I will scatter any survivors to the winds.

  • Job 33:21
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    21His flesh wastes away from sight, and his bones, which were not seen, are easily visible.

  • Isa 5:17
    71%

    17Lambs will graze as if in their pastures, amid the ruins the rich sojourners will graze.

  • Ezek 39:18
    71%

    18You will eat the flesh of warriors and drink the blood of the princes of the earth– the rams, lambs, goats, and bulls, all of them fattened animals of Bashan.

  • Ps 21:9
    71%

    9You burn them up like a fiery furnace when you appear; the LORD angrily devours them; the fire consumes them.

  • Deut 28:51
    71%

    51They will devour the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your soil until you are destroyed. They will not leave you with any grain, new wine, olive oil, calves of your herds, or lambs of your flocks until they have destroyed you.

  • 1 Sam 2:16
    70%

    16If the individual said to him,“They should certainly burn the fat away first, then take for yourself whatever you wish,” he would say,“No! Give it now! If not, I’ll take it by force!”

  • Job 5:5
    70%

    5The hungry eat up his harvest, and take it even from behind the thorns, and the thirsty pant for their wealth.

  • Rev 19:18
    70%

    18to eat your fill of the flesh of kings, the flesh of generals, the flesh of powerful people, the flesh of horses and those who ride them, and the flesh of all people, both free and slave, and small and great!”

  • Isa 29:8
    70%

    8It will be like a hungry man dreaming that he is eating, only to awaken and find that his stomach is empty. It will be like a thirsty man dreaming that he is drinking, only to awaken and find that he is still weak and his thirst unquenched. So it will be for the horde from all the nations that fight against Mount Zion.

  • Isa 49:26
    70%

    26I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh; they will get drunk on their own blood, as if it were wine. Then all humankind will recognize that I am the LORD, your deliverer, your protector, the Powerful One of Jacob.”

  • Job 24:10
    70%

    10They go about naked, without clothing, and go hungry while they carry the sheaves.

  • Isa 13:7
    70%

    7For this reason all hands hang limp, every human heart loses its courage.

  • Prov 13:25
    70%

    25The righteous has enough food to satisfy his appetite, but the belly of the wicked will be empty.

  • Jer 12:12
    70%

    12A destructive army will come marching over the hilltops in the wilderness. For the LORD will use them as his destructive weapon against everyone from one end of the land to the other. No one will be safe.

  • Ezek 21:16
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    16Cut sharply on the right! Swing to the left, wherever your edge is appointed to strike.

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    16Indeed, I am about to raise up a shepherd in the land who will not take heed to the sheep headed to slaughter, will not seek the scattered, and will not heal the injured. Moreover, he will not nourish the one that is healthy but instead will eat the meat of the fat sheep and tear off their hooves.

  • Isa 5:25
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    25So the LORD is furious with his people; he lifts his hand and strikes them. The mountains shake, and corpses lie like manure in the middle of the streets. Despite all this, his anger does not subside, and his hand is ready to strike again.

  • Prov 30:14
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    14There is a generation whose teeth are like swords and whose molars are like knives to devour the poor from the earth and the needy from among the human race.

  • Jer 18:21
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    21So let their children die of starvation. Let them be cut down by the sword. Let their wives lose their husbands and children. Let the older men die of disease and the younger men die by the sword in battle.

  • Isa 10:18
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    18The splendor of his forest and his orchard will be completely destroyed, as when a sick man’s life ebbs away.

  • Ezek 12:19
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    19Then say to the people of the land,‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says about the inhabitants of Jerusalem and of the land of Israel: They will eat their bread with anxiety and drink their water in fright, for their land will be stripped bare of all it contains because of the violence of all who live in it.