Now their appearance is blacker than soot;
They go unrecognized in the streets;
(A)Their skin clings to their bones,
It has become as dry as wood.

Those slain by the sword are better off
Than those who die of hunger;
For these (B)pine away,
Stricken for lack of the fruits of the (C)field.

10 The hands of the (D)compassionate women
Have [a]cooked their (E)own children;
They became (F)food for them
In the destruction of the daughter of my people.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 4:10 boiled

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