Lamentations 4:10

World English Bible (WEB)

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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8 Their appearance is blacker than a coal. They are not known in the streets. Their skin clings to their bones. It is withered. It has become like wood.

9 Those who are killed with the sword are better than those who are killed with hunger; for these pine away, stricken through, for lack of the fruits of the field.

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

11 The LORD has accomplished his wrath. He has poured out his fierce anger. He has kindled a fire in Zion, which has devoured its foundations.

12 The kings of the earth didn’t believe, neither did all the inhabitants of the world, that the adversary and the enemy would enter into the gates of Jerusalem.

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Lamentations 4:10 in every translation

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.
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.
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.