Lamentations 4:10

King James Version (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.

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8 Their 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.

9 They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.

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

11 The LORD hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured the foundations thereof.

12 The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem.

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Lamentations 4:10 in every translation

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.
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.
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.