Lamentations 4:8-10

Modern English Version

⁸ Their form is blacker than coal;
    they are not recognized in the streets;
their skin cleaves to their bones,
    it has become as dry as wood.

⁹ Those killed by the sword
    are better off than those who die of hunger,
for they pine away,
    stricken for want of the fruits of the field.

¹⁰ The hands of compassionate women
    have boiled their own children;
they became their food in the destruction
    of the daughter of my people.