Bible verse
The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Lamentations 4:10 · BSB
The verses around it, from Lamentations 4.
6 The punishment of the daughter of my people is greater than that of Sodom, which was overthrown in an instant without a hand turned to help her.
7 Her dignitaries were brighter than snow, whiter than milk; their bodies were more ruddy than rubies, their appearance like sapphires.
8 But now their appearance is blacker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets. Their skin has shriveled on their bones; it has become as dry as a stick.
9 Those slain by the sword are better off than those who die of hunger, who waste away, pierced with pain because the fields lack produce.
10 The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
11 The LORD has exhausted His wrath; He has poured out His fierce anger; He has kindled a fire in Zion, and it has consumed her foundations.
12 The kings of the earth did not believe, nor any people of the world, that an enemy or a foe could enter the gates of Jerusalem.
13 But this was for the sins of her prophets and the guilt of her priests, who shed the blood of the righteous in her midst.
14 They wandered blind in the streets, defiled by this blood, so that no one dared to touch their garments.
KJV
The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
ASV
The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
ERV
The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children; they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
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