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Lamentations 4:10

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The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

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Lamentations 4:10 in other translations

The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children.
They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Lamentations 4:10 · World English Bible

Lamentations 4:10 in context

  1. 8Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: Their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.
  2. 9They that are slain with the sword are better than they that are slain with hunger; For these pine away, stricken through, for want of the fruits of the field.
  3. 10The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
  4. 11Jehovah hath accomplished his wrath, he hath poured out his fierce anger; And he hath kindled a fire in Zion, which hath devoured the foundations thereof.
  5. 12The kings of the earth believed not, neither all the inhabitants of the world, That the adversary and the enemy would enter into the gates of Jerusalem.