Lamentations 4:10

In 11 translations

BSB

The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

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.

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.

ASV

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

LSV

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.

YLT

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

The hands of pitiful women have boiled their own children: they were their meat in the ruin of the daughter of my people.

DRC

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.

GNV

The hands of the pitifull women haue sodden their owne children, which were their meate in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

JPS

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.

LXXE

Jod. The hands of tender-hearted women have sodden their own children: they became meat for them in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

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Original-language editions

WLC

יְדֵ֗י נָשִׁים֙ רַחֲמָ֣נִיּ֔וֹת בִּשְּׁל֖וּ יַלְדֵיהֶ֑ן הָי֤וּ לְבָרוֹת֙ לָ֔מוֹ בְּשֶׁ֖בֶר בַּת־עַמִּֽי׃

LXX-Br

ΙΩΔ. Χεῖρες γυναικῶν οἰκτιρμόνων ἥψησαν τὰ παιδία αὐτῶν, ἐγενήθησαν εἰς βρῶσιν αὐταῖς, ἐν τῷ συντρίμματι τῆς θυγατρὸς τοῦ λαοῦ μου.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

• Lamentations 2:20Look, O LORD, and consider: Whom have You ever treated like this? Should women eat their offspring, the infants they have nurtured? Should priests and prophets be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
• Isaiah 49:15“Can a woman forget her nursing child, or lack compassion for the son of her womb? Even if she could forget, I will not forget you!
• 2 Kings 6:26–29As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, “Help me, my lord the king!” He answered, “If the LORD does not help you, where can I find help for you? From the threshing floor or the…
• Jeremiah 19:9I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh in the siege and distress inflicted on them by their enemies who seek their lives.’
• Lamentations 3:48Streams of tears flow from my eyes over the destruction of the daughter of my people.
• Leviticus 26:29You will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters.
• Ezekiel 5:10As a result, fathers among you will eat their sons, and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments against you and scatter all your remnant to every wind.’
• Lamentations 4:3Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young, but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like an ostrich in the wilderness.
• Deuteronomy 28:53–57Then you will eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you. The most gentle and refined man among…

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