Lamentations 4:9-11

Common English Bible

⁹ Things were better for those stabbed by the sword than for those stabbed by famine—
those who bled away, pierced, lacking food from the field.

¹⁰ The hands of loving women boiled their own children
    to become their food during the destruction of the daughter of my people.

¹¹ The Lord let loose his fury; he poured out his fierce anger.
He started a fire in Zion; it licked up its foundations.