⁸ Their appearance is blacker than a coal.
    They are not known in the streets.
Their skin clings to their bones.
    It is withered.
    It has become like a stick.

⁹ Those who are killed with the sword are better than those who are killed with hunger;
    For these pine away, stricken through,
    for lack of the fruits of the field.

¹⁰ The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children.
    They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.