Lamentations 4:9-11

World English Bible

⁹ Those who are killed with the sword are better than those who are killed with hunger;
    For these pine away, stricken through,
    for lack of the fruits of the field.

¹⁰ The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children.
    They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

¹¹ Yahweh has accomplished his wrath.
    He has poured out his fierce anger.
He has kindled a fire in Zion,
    which has devoured its foundations.