Lamentations 4:8-10

New American Standard Bible

⁸ Their appearance is ^(A)darker than soot,
They are not recognized in the streets;
Their ^(B)skin is shriveled on their bones,
It is dry, it has become like wood.
⁹ Better off are those ^(C)killed by the sword
Than those killed by hunger;
For they ^[a](D)waste away, ^[b]stricken
By the lack of the produce of the field.
¹⁰ The hands of compassionate women
^(E)Boiled their own children;
They became ^(F)food for them
Due to the destruction of the daughter of my people.