Lamentations 4:8-10

Evangelical Heritage Version

⁸ Now their faces have become the darkest black. They cannot be recognized in the streets.
    Their skin has shriveled on their bones. It is as dry as a stick of wood.
⁹ Those cut down by the sword are better off than those cut down by hunger,
    those who waste away, pierced with pain, with no crops to eat from the field.
¹⁰ The hands of compassionate women boiled their children.
    Their children became their food when the daughter of my people was broken.