Lamentations 4:9-11

International Children’s Bible

⁹ Those people who were killed by the sword had it better
    than those killed by hunger.
They starved in pain and died
    because there was no food from the field.

¹⁰ With their own hands kind women
    cooked their own children.
The children became food for their parents.
    This happened when my people were destroyed.

¹¹ The Lord turned loose all of his anger.
    He poured out his strong anger.
He set fire to Jerusalem.
    It burned down to the foundations.