The Voice of the Community in the Book of Revelation

verse 6 contrasts either the punishment of Jerusalem with that of Sodom, or its iniquity. Verses 7-10 continued this description of the terrible condition that certain members of the city have fallen into. The group has been variously understood as young men as Nazarites or as princes. It might seem that they would have been far better off to have died suddenly by the sword than to suffer in such a grim fashion. Yet far more horrifying still are the lengths to which certain mothers have gone in eating their own children.