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28 What's your trouble?”

She answered, “The other day this woman here suggested that we eat my child, and then eat her child the next day. 29 (A)So we cooked my son and ate him. The next day I told her that we would eat her son, but she had hidden him!”

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28 Then he asked her, “What’s the matter?”

She answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give up your son so we may eat him today, and tomorrow we’ll eat my son.’ 29 So we cooked my son and ate(A) him. The next day I said to her, ‘Give up your son so we may eat him,’ but she had hidden him.”

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10 (A)The disaster that came to my people brought horror;
    loving mothers boiled their own children for food.

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10 With their own hands compassionate women
    have cooked their own children,(A)
who became their food
    when my people were destroyed.

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