Deut 28:54

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his eye.

Deut 15:9; Prov 23:6; Prov 28:22; Matt 20:15

and toward.

The Roman armies at length besieged, sacked, and utterly desolated Jerusalem: and during this seige, the famine was so extreme, that even rich and delicate persons, both men and women, ate their own children, and concealed the horrible repast, lest others should tear it from them!

"Women snatched the food out of the very mouths of their husbands, and sons of their fathers, and (what is most miserable) mothers of their infants."

"In every house, if there appeared any semblance of food, a battle ensued, and the dearest friends and relations fought with one another; snatching away the miserable provisions of life."

"A woman distinguished by birth and wealth, after she had been plundered by the tyrants (or soldiers) of all her possessions, boiling her own sucking child, ate half of him, and concealing the other half, reserved it for another time!"

Deut 13:6; 2Sam 12:3; Mic 7:5

his children.

Ps 103:13; Isa 49:15; Matt 7:9-11; Luke 11:11-13