Baruch 2:3
King James VersionSource notes
“That a man should eat the flesh of his own son, and the flesh of his own daughter.”
Context
1Therefore the Lord hath made good his word, which he pronounced against us, and against our judges that judged Israel, and against our kings, and against our princes, and against the men of Israel and Juda,
2To bring upon us great plagues, such as never happened under the whole heaven, as it came to pass in Jerusalem, according to the things that were written in the law of Moses;
3That a man should eat the flesh of his own son, and the flesh of his own daughter.
4Moreover he hath delivered them to be in subjection to all the kingdoms that are round about us, to be as a reproach and desolation among all the people round about, where the Lord hath scattered them.
5Thus we were cast down, and not exalted, because we have sinned against the Lord our God, and have not been obedient unto his voice.
6To the Lord our God appertaineth righteousness: but unto us and to our fathers open shame, as appeareth this day.