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56-57 (A)Even the most refined woman of noble birth, so rich that she has never had to walk anywhere, will behave in the same way. When the enemy besieges her town, she will become so desperate for food that she will secretly eat her newborn child and the afterbirth as well. She will not share them with the husband she loves or with any of her children.

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57 the afterbirth from her womb and the children she bears. For in her dire need she intends to eat them(A) secretly because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege of your cities.

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10 (A)The disaster that came to my people brought horror;
    loving mothers boiled their own children for food.

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

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