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(A)Now their face is blacker than soot;
    they are not recognized in the streets;
their skin has shrivelled on their bones;
    it has become as dry as wood.
Happier were the victims of the sword
    than the victims of hunger,
who wasted away, pierced
    by lack of the fruits of the field.
10 (B)The hands of (C)compassionate women
    (D)have boiled their own children;
(E)they became their food
    during the destruction of the daughter of my people.

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But now they are blacker(A) than soot;
    they are not recognized in the streets.
Their skin has shriveled on their bones;(B)
    it has become as dry as a stick.

Those killed by the sword are better off
    than those who die of famine;(C)
racked with hunger, they waste away
    for lack of food from the field.(D)

10 With their own hands compassionate women
    have cooked their own children,(E)
who became their food
    when my people were destroyed.

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