Even a mother wolf will nurse her cubs, but my people are like ostriches, cruel to their young.

Look, O LORD! Why are you punishing us like this? Women are eating the bodies of the children they loved! Priests and prophets are being killed in the Temple itself !

The king of Israel was walking by on the city wall when a woman cried out, "Help me, Your Majesty!"

What's your trouble?" She answered, "The other day this woman here suggested that we eat my child, and then eat her child the next day.

So the LORD answers, "Can a woman forget her own baby and not love the child she bore? Even if a mother should forget her child, I will never forget you.

My eyes flow with rivers of tears at the destruction of my people.

Even the most refined woman of noble birth, so rich that she has never had to walk anywhere, will behave in the same way. When the enemy besieges her town, she will become so desperate for food that she will secretly eat her newborn child and the afterbirth as well. She will not share them with the husband she loves or with any of her children.

(SEE 28:56)

So we cooked my son and ate him. The next day I told her that we would eat her son, but she had hidden him!"