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Lamentations 4:8-10
New American Standard Bible 1995
Lamentations 4:8-10
New American Standard Bible 1995
8 Their appearance is (A)blacker than soot,
They are not recognized in the streets;
Their (B)skin is shriveled on their bones,
It is withered, it has become like wood.
9 Better are those [a](C)slain with the sword
Than those [b]slain with hunger;
For they [c](D)pine away, being stricken
For lack of the fruits of [d]the field.
10 The hands of compassionate women
(E)Boiled their own children;
They became (F)food for them
Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Footnotes
- Lamentations 4:9 Lit pierced
- Lamentations 4:9 Lit pierced
- Lamentations 4:9 Lit flow away
- Lamentations 4:9 Lit my fields
Lamentations 4:8-10
New International Version
Lamentations 4:8-10
New International Version
8 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.
9 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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