They that be slain with the sword, are better than they that are killed with hunger: for they fade away as they were stricken through for the [a]fruits of the field.

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

11 The Lord hath accomplished his indignation: he hath poured out his fierce wrath, he hath kindled a fire in Zion, which hath devoured the foundations thereof.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 4:9 For lack of food they pine away and consume.

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