Psalms 59:15 Cross References

Psalms 59:15

15: They scavenge for food but go to sleep unsatisfied.

They wander abroad for bread, saying, `Where is it?' They know their ruin is certain.

May his children wander as beggars; may they be evicted from their ruined homes.

The siege will be so severe that you will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters, whom the LORD your God has given you.
The most tenderhearted man among you will have no compassion for his own brother, his beloved wife, and his surviving children.
He will refuse to give them a share of the flesh he is devouring--the flesh of one of his own children--because he has nothing else to eat during the siege that your enemy will inflict on all your towns.
The most tender and delicate woman among you--so delicate she would not so much as touch her feet to the ground--will be cruel to the husband she loves and to her own son or daughter.
She will hide from them the afterbirth and the new baby she has borne, so that she herself can secretly eat them. She will have nothing else to eat during the siege and terrible distress that your enemy will inflict on all your towns.

My people will be led away as captives, weary and hungry. And because they are hungry, they will rage and shake their fists at heaven and curse their king and their God.

The nations and kingdoms will proclaim war against each other, and there will be famines and earthquakes in many parts of the world.
But all this will be only the beginning of the horrors to come.

"But now I am mocked by those who are younger than I, by young men whose fathers are not worthy to run with my sheepdogs.
A lot of good they are to me--those worn-out wretches!
They are gaunt with hunger and flee to the deserts and the wastelands, desolate and gloomy.
They eat coarse leaves, and they burn the roots of shrubs for heat.
They are driven from civilization, and people shout after them as if they were thieves.

The parched tongues of their little ones stick with thirst to the roofs of their mouths. The children cry for bread, but no one has any to give them.
The people who once ate only the richest foods now beg in the streets for anything they can get. Those who once lived in palaces now search the garbage pits for food.

you will serve your enemies whom the LORD will send against you. You will be left hungry, thirsty, naked, and lacking in everything. They will oppress you harshly until you are destroyed.

As a result there was a great famine in the city. After a while even a donkey's head sold for two pounds of silver, and a cup of dove's dung cost about two ounces of silver.
One day as the king of Israel was walking along the wall of the city, a woman called to him, "Please help me, my lord the king!"
"If the LORD doesn't help you, what can I do?" he retorted. "I have neither food nor wine to give you."
But then the king asked, "What is the matter?" She replied, "This woman proposed that we eat my son one day and her son the next.
So we cooked my son and ate him. Then the next day I said, `Kill your son so we can eat him,' but she had hidden him."

This is what the LORD says to you false prophets: "You are leading my people astray! You promise peace for those who give you food, but you declare war on anyone who refuses to pay you.

And they are as greedy as dogs, never satisfied. They are stupid shepherds, all following their own path, all of them intent on personal gain.

Those killed by the sword are far better off than those who die of hunger, wasting away for want of food.
Tenderhearted women have cooked their own children and eaten them in order to survive the siege.

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