Lamentations 4:10
“The hands of the pitifull women haue sodden their owne children, they were their meate in the destruction of the daughter of my people.”
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Lamentations 4:10 Context
8Their visage is blacker then a cole: they are not knowen in the streets: their skinne cleaueth to their bones: it is withered, it is become like a sticke. 9They that bee slaine with the sword, are better then they that be slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field. 10The hands of the pitifull women haue sodden their owne children, they were their meate in the destruction of the daughter of my people. 11The Lord hath accomplished his furie, he hath powred out his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath deuoured the foundations thereof. 12The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world would not haue beleeued, that the aduersarie and the enemie should haue entred into the gates of Ierusalem.
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The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
- King James Version
The hands of compassionate women Boiled their own children; They became food for them Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
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 (1901)
The hands of kind-hearted women have been boiling their children; they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
- Basic English Bible
The hands of pitiful women have boiled their own children: they were their meat in the ruin of the daughter of my people.
- Darby 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.
- Webster's 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.
- World English Bible
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.
- Youngs Literal Bible
The hands of women full of compassion have sodden their own children; they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
- Jewish Publication Society Bible