Lamentations 4:8-10

New Catholic Bible

⁸ Now their faces are blacker than soot,
    and no one recognizes them in the streets.
Their skin has shriveled tightly over their bones,
    as dry as a stick.
⁹ More blessed were those who died by the sword
    than those who died of hunger,
with their limbs wasting away,
    deprived of the produce of the field.
¹⁰ With their own hands, compassionate women
    have boiled their own children;
those offspring became their food
    when my people were on the verge of extinction,