Lamentations 4:10

New English Translation

¹⁰The hands of tenderhearted women^[a]
cooked their own children,
who became their food,^[b]
when my people^[c] were destroyed.^[d]

Lamentations 4:10 tn Heb “the hands of compassionate women.”
Lamentations 4:10 tn Heb “eating.” The infinitive construct (from I בָּרָה, barah) is translated as a noun. Three passages employ the verb (2 Sam 3:35; 12:17; 13:5, 6, 10) for eating when one is ill or in mourning.
Lamentations 4:10 tn Heb “the daughter of my people.”
Lamentations 4:10 tn Heb “in the destruction of the daughter of my people.”

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