Lamentations 4:9-11

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁹ Happier were those pierced by the sword
    than those pierced by hunger,
whose life drains away, deprived
    of the produce of the field.

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

¹¹ The Lord gave full vent to his wrath;
    he poured out his hot anger,
and kindled a fire in Zion
    that consumed its foundations.