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.

Commentaries

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Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes

AlbertBarnes

18th Century
Presbyterian
18th Century

The curses correspond in form and number (Deuteronomy 28:15–19) to the blessings (Deuteronomy 28:3–6), and the special ways…

John Gill

John Gill

JohnGill

17th Century
Reformed Baptist
17th Century

And toward her young one that comes out from between her
feet
Or her secundine, "her …

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry

MatthewHenry

17th Century
Presbyterian
17th Century

If God inflicts vengeance, what miseries His curse can bring upon humankind, even in this present world! Yet these are but the beginning of sorrows…