Lamentations 4:10

Berean Standard Bible (BSB)

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

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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.

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Lamentations 4:10 in every translation

BSB Berean Standard Bible: The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
KJV 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.
WEB 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.
ASV 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.
YLT 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.
DBY 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.
WBS Webster 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.