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10 Therefore, parents will eat their children in your midst, and children will eat their parents.[a] I will inflict punishments upon you and scatter all who remain to the winds.(A)

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  1. 5:10 Parents will eat their children…parents: the prophet describes the consequences of the prolonged Babylonian siege of Jerusalem in 587/586 B.C. See note on Lam 2:20.