Jeremiah 19:9 meaning and explanation
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.’
Jeremiah 19:9, Berean Standard Bible
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Jeremiah 19:9 falls within a judgment speech the LORD gives the prophet to proclaim in the Valley of Ben-hinnom, before elders and priests, with a clay jar as a visual sign. The verse describes the horror of a siege: hunger will become so severe that parents will eat their own children and people will consume one another.
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