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.


In Context

7 Purer were her Nazarites than snow, Whiter than milk, ruddier of body than rubies, Of sapphire their form.

8 Darker than blackness hath been their visage, They have not been known in out-places, Cleaved hath their skin unto their bone, It hath withered — it hath been as wood.

9 Better have been the pierced of a sword Than the pierced of famine, For these flow away, pierced through, Without the increase of the field.

10 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.

11 Completed hath Jehovah His fury, He hath poured out the fierceness of His anger, And he kindleth a fire in Zion, And it devoureth her foundations.

12 Believe not did the kings of earth, And any of the inhabitants of the world, That come would an adversary and enemy 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 World English 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.