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The Book of Lamentations, Chapter 4, Verse 10

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[They that be] slain with the sword are better than [they that be] slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for [want of] the fruits of the field.
King James Version
The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
American Standard Version
The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
New English Translation
י(Yod) The hands of tenderhearted women cooked their own children, who became their food, when my people were destroyed.
World English Bible
The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
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The LORD hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured the foundations thereof.
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The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem.
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For the sins of her prophets, [and] the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,
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They have wandered [as] blind [men] in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.
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They cried unto them, Depart ye; [it is] unclean; depart, depart, touch not: when they fled away and wandered, they said among the heathen, They shall no more sojourn [there].
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The anger of the LORD hath divided them; he will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they favoured not the elders.
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As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation [that] could not save [us].
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They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.
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Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
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The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen.