Lamentations 4:10

The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Berean Standard Bible
Other translations

King James Version

The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

The hands of the pitifull women haue sodden their owne children, which were their meate in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Darby Translation

The hands of pitiful women have boiled their own children: they were their meat in the ruin of the daughter of my people.

Young's Literal Translation

The hands of merciful women have boiled their own children, They have been for food to them, In the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Bible in Basic English

The hands of kind-hearted women have been boiling their children; they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

In context

9Those slain by the sword are better off than those who die of hunger, who waste away, pierced with pain because the fields lack produce.

11The 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.

Read Lamentations 4