Lamentations 4:10
The Distress of Zion
9Those slain by the sword are better off than those who die of hunger, who waste away, pierced with pain because the fields lack produce. 10The 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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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.
American Standard Version (1901)
The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children;
They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Bible in Basic English
The hands of kind-hearted women have been boiling their children; they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Douay-Rheims 1899
Jod. The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Free Bible Version
The hands of loving women have cooked their own children to eat during the destruction of Jerusalem.
Geneva Bible 1599
The hands of the pitifull women haue sodden their owne children, which were their meate in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
King James (Authorized) 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.
Translation for Translators
Women who usually/previously were very kind have killed and cooked their own children; they ate them when there was no other food, when Jerusalem was surrounded by enemy soldiers.
Unlocked Literal Bible
The hands of compassionate women have boiled their own children;
they became their food during the time
when the daughter of my people was being destroyed.
Noah 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.
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.
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.