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


In Context

7 Her nobles were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk; They were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was as of sapphire.

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 is become like a stick.

9 Those who are killed with the sword are better than those who are killed with hunger; For these pine away, stricken through, for want 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 Yahweh 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 all the inhabitants of the world, That the adversary and the enemy would enter into the gates of Jerusalem.

Lamentations 4:10 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:10The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

4:10With their own hands compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food when my people were destroyed.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:10The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

4:10Jod. The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

4:10The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:10The hands of pitiful women have boiled their own children: they were their meat in the ruin of the daughter of my people.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

4:10The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children; they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:10The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children: they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

4:10The 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.