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Lamentations 4:8-10
EasyEnglish Bible
Lamentations 4:8-10
EasyEnglish Bible
8 Now their faces are dirty and black.
People see them in the streets, but they do not recognize them.
Their skin hangs on their bones.
Their skin is as dry as wood for a fire.[a]
9 Our enemies have killed many people with long knives.
It is better for those dead people
than for the people who have no food.
They are very hungry.
And they die slowly because they have nothing to eat.[b]
10 Women who once were very kind
have boiled their own children.
Their children became their food,
when the enemies were destroying the city.[c]
Footnotes
- 4:8 A long time ago, these leaders had been extra careful to be clean. They wanted to do what God wanted them to do. People thought that these leaders were very special. But now, they are the same as everybody else in the streets.
- 4:9 Jerusalem's people knew a lot about God, but they also did many very bad things. They died more slowly. They were in pain for a long time before they died.
- 4:10 These people had done some very bad things in the bad times when they were very sad and hungry. But God wants them to learn his ways again.
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