Then the woman whose son was living spoke to the king, for her womb yearned for her son; and she said, O my lord, give her the living child, and do not put him to death! But the other said, Let him be neither mine nor yours, but divide him.

So the king answered and said, Give her the living child, and do not put him to death; she is his mother.

As a father has compassion on his children, so Jehovah has compassion on those who fear Him.

And they shall be Mine, says Jehovah of Hosts, for the day that I will make up My treasure. And I will pity them as a man has compassion on his son who serves him.

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in Heaven give good things to those who ask Him!

And you shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters.

The eye of the tender and dainty woman among you, who would not have ventured to set the sole of her foot on the ground because of her delicateness and tenderness, will quiver with hostility toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son and her daughter,

and toward her afterbirth which comes forth from between her feet and her children whom she bears; for she shall eat them secretly for lack of everything in the siege and desperate straits in which your enemy shall distress you in all your gates.

And the king said to her, What is troubling you? And she answered, This woman said to me, Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.

So we boiled my son, and ate him. And I said to her on the next day, Give your son, that we may eat him; but she hid her son.

When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son had died, she arose and destroyed all the royal seed.

But Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him away from among the king's sons who were being murdered; and they hid him and his nurse in the bedroom, from Athaliah, so that he was not killed.

Even the monsters draw out the breast to suckle their young. But the daughter of my people is cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.

The hands of the compassionate women have boiled their own children; they became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

without understanding, untrustworthy, without natural affection, unforgiving, unmerciful;

Remember these, O Jacob and Israel; for you are My servant; I have formed you; you are My servant; O Israel, you shall not be forgotten by Me.

Is Ephraim My dear son? Is he a delightful child? For as often as I spoke against him, I call to mind and remember him still. Therefore My heart is stirred for him; I will have mercy and compassion upon him, says Jehovah.

When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and I called My Son out of Egypt.

Indeed, concerning the gospel they are enemies because of you, but concerning the election they are beloved because of the fathers.

For the gifts and the calling of God are without regret.