These were the miserable effects or consequents of the famine with which God had often before threatened them, the just fulfilling of God's word threatened Leviticus 26:29 Deuteronomy 28:53, and the accomplishment of which our prophet hath recorded, Lamentations 4:10.
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Jeremiah 19:9
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.