A moment in scripture

Jeremiah 19:9

"

And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.

"
Jeremiah 19:9Read chapter (KJV) KJV

The surrounding passage

  1. Jeremiah 19:7

    And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and their carcases will I give to be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.

  2. Jeremiah 19:8

    And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.

  3. Jeremiah 19:10

    Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee,

  4. Jeremiah 19:11

    And shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaketh a potter’s vessel, that cannot be made whole again: and they shall bury them in Tophet, till there be no place to bury.

Read all of Jeremiah 19 →

Download verse card

Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.