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. "
— Lamentations 4:10, American Standard 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.”
“The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.”
“י(Yod) The hands of tenderhearted women cooked their own children, who became their food, when my people were destroyed.”
“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.”
“The hands of kind-hearted women have been boiling their children; they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.”
“The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.”
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.
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.
They that are slain with the sword are better than they that are slain with hunger; For these pine away, stricken through, for want of the fruits of the field.
The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Jehovah hath accomplished his wrath, he hath poured out his fierce anger; And he hath kindled a fire in Zion, which hath devoured the foundations thereof.
The kings of the earth believed not, neither all the inhabitants of the world, That the adversary and the enemy would enter into the gates of Jerusalem.
It isbecause of the sins of her prophets, andthe iniquities of her priests, That have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her.