Baruch 2:3
Good News Translation
Things were so bad that we even ate the flesh of our own sons and daughters.

New Revised Standard Version
Some of us ate the flesh of their sons and others the flesh of their daughters.

Contemporary English Version
There was so little food that some of us ate our own children.

New American Bible
that we would each eat the flesh of our sons, each the flesh of our daughters.

Douay-Rheims Bible
That a man should eat the flesh of his own son, and the flesh of his own daughter.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

That a man should eat the flesh of his own son, and the flesh of his own daughter.

Baruch 2:1
Wherefore the Lord our God hath made good his word, that he spoke to us, and to our judges that have judged Israel, and to our kings, and to our princes, and to all Israel and Juda:

Baruch 2:2
That the Lord would bring upon us great evils, such as never happened under heaven, as they have come to pass in Jerusalem, according to the things that are written in the law of Moses:

Baruch 2:4
And he hath delivered them up to be under the hand of all the kings that are round about us, to be a reproach, and desolation among all the people, among whom the Lord hath scattered us.

Baruch 2:5
And we are brought under, and are not uppermost: because we have sinned against the Lord our God, by not obeying his voice.

Context
Baruch 2
2That the Lord would bring upon us great evils, such as never happened under heaven, as they have come to pass in Jerusalem, according to the things that are written in the law of Moses: 3That a man should eat the flesh of his own son, and the flesh of his own daughter. 4And he hath delivered them up to be under the hand of all the kings that are round about us, to be a reproach, and desolation among all the people, among whom the Lord hath scattered us.…
Cross References
Baruch 2:1
Wherefore the Lord our God hath made good his word, that he spoke to us, and to our judges that have judged Israel, and to our kings, and to our princes, and to all Israel and Juda:

Baruch 2:2
That the Lord would bring upon us great evils, such as never happened under heaven, as they have come to pass in Jerusalem, according to the things that are written in the law of Moses:

Baruch 2:4
And he hath delivered them up to be under the hand of all the kings that are round about us, to be a reproach, and desolation among all the people, among whom the Lord hath scattered us.

Baruch 2:5
And we are brought under, and are not uppermost: because we have sinned against the Lord our God, by not obeying his voice.



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Baruch 2:2
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