Lamentations 4:8-10

New Century Version

⁸ But now they are blacker than coal,
    and no one recognizes them in the streets.
Their skin hangs on their bones;
    it is as dry as wood.

⁹ Those who were killed in the war were better off
    than those killed by hunger.
They starve in pain and die,
    because there is no food from the field.

¹⁰ With their own hands kind women
    cook their own children.
They became food
    when my people were destroyed.