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.
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Lamentations 4:10
The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
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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.
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.
Surrounding context — Lamentations 4
7 Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing [was] of sapphire:
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.
13 For the sins of her prophets, [and] the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
יְדֵ֗יH3027 · yadhandנָשִׁים֙H802 · ish.shahwomanרַחֲמָ֣נִיּ֔וֹתH7362 · rach.ma.nicompassionateבִּשְּׁל֖וּH1310 · ba.shalto boilיַלְדֵיהֶ֑ןH3206 · ye.ledyouthהָי֤וּH1961 · ha.yahto beלְבָרוֹת֙H1262 · ba.rahto eatלָ֔מוֹH9038 · hemthemבְּשֶׁ֖בֶרH7667 · she.verbreakingבַּת־H1323 · batdaughterעַמִּֽי׃ סH5971 · ampeople
Cross-references
2 Kings 6:26-29And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman unto him, saying, Help, my lord, O king.Isaiah 49:15Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.Lamentations 2:20Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, [and] children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?Jeremiah 19:9And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.Ezekiel 5:10Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter into all the winds.Lamentations 3:48Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.Leviticus 26:29And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.Lamentations 4:3Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people [is become] cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.Deuteronomy 28:53-57And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the LORD thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee:
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