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Now their visage is blacker than soot;
    they are not recognized in the streets.
Their skin has shriveled on their bones;
    it has become as dry as wood.(A)

Happier were those pierced by the sword
    than those pierced by hunger,
whose life drains away, deprived
    of the produce of the field.(B)

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

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