Deuteronomy 28:56
 Deuteronomy 28:56 
New International Version (© 2011)
The most gentle and sensitive woman among you--so sensitive and gentle that she would not venture to touch the ground with the sole of her foot--will begrudge the husband she loves and her own son or daughter

King James Bible
The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,

American Standard Version
The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,

Young's Literal Translation
'The tender woman in thee, and the delicate, who hath not tried the sole of her foot to place on the ground because of delicateness and because of tenderness -- her eye is evil against the husband of her bosom, and against her son, and against her daughter,

Deuteronomy 28:56 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the Bible

The tender and delicate woman - This was literally fulfilled when Jerusalem was besieged by the Romans; a woman named Mary, of a noble family, driven to distraction by famine, boiled and ate her own child! See a similar case 2 Kings 6:29 (note); and Leviticus 26:29 (note).

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

and delicate

Isaiah 3:16 Moreover the LORD said, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes...

Lamentations 4:3-6 Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel...

her eye shall be evil

Deuteronomy 28:54 So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom...

Deuteronomy 28:56 Parallel Commentaries
Adventure Bosom Daughter Delicate Evil Eye Husband Refined Sole Tender Tenderness Towards Venture
Adventure Bosom Daughter Delicate Evil Eye Husband Refined Sole Tender Tenderness Towards Venture
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Matthew 11:8 If not, what did you go out to see? A man dressed in fine clothes? No, those who wear fine clothes are in kings' palaces.
Deuteronomy 28:55 and he will not give to one of them any of the flesh of his children that he is eating. It will be all he has left because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege of all your cities.
Isaiah 47:1 "Go down, sit in the dust, Virgin Daughter Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, queen city of the Babylonians. No more will you be called tender or delicate.
Jeremiah 6:2 I will destroy Daughter Zion, so beautiful and delicate.
Lamentations 4:10 With their own hands compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food when my people were destroyed.