Lamentations 4:10
The compassionate women have boiled their own children; they became their food during the destruction of the daughter of my people.
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King James Version 1769 (Standard 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.
KJV1611 – Modern English
The hands of the compassionate women have cooked their own children; they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
King James Version 1611 (Original)
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 with Strong's Numbers
The hands{H3027} of the pitiful{H7362} women{H802} have boiled{H1310} their own children;{H3206} They were their food{H1262} in the destruction{H7667} of the daughter{H1323} of my people.{H5971}
King James Version with Strong's Numbers
The hands{H3027} of the pitiful{H7362} women{H802} have sodden{H1310}{(H8765)} their own children{H3206}: they were their meat{H1262}{(H8763)} in the destruction{H7667} of the daughter{H1323} of my people{H5971}.
Coverdale Bible (1535)
The wome (which of nature are pitefull) haue sodden their owne children with their hondes: that they might be their meate, in ye miserable destruccion of the doughter of my people.
Geneva Bible (1560)
The hands of the pitifull women haue sodden their owne children, which were their meate in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Bishops' Bible (1568)
The women (whiche of nature are pitifull) haue sodden their owne chyldren with their hands, that they might be their meate in the miserable destruction of the daughter of my people.
Authorized King James Version (1611)
The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Webster's Bible (1833)
The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)
The hands of merciful women have boiled their own children, They have been for food to them, In the destruction of the daughter of my people.
American Standard Version (1901)
The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
American Standard Version (1901)
The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Bible in Basic English (1941)
The hands of kind-hearted women have been boiling their children; they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
World English Bible (2000)
The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
NET Bible® (New English Translation)
י(Yod) The hands of tenderhearted women cooked their own children, who became their food, when my people were destroyed.
Referenced Verses
- Lam 2:20 : 20 Look, LORD, and consider: Whom have you ever treated like this? Should women eat their own children, the little ones they have cherished? Should priest and prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
- Isa 49:15 : 15 Can a woman forget her nursing child or lack compassion for the child of her womb? Even if these forget, I will not forget you.
- Jer 19:9 : 9 I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another's flesh because of the siege and distress that their enemies and those who seek their lives will impose on them.
- Lev 26:29 : 29 You will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters.
- Deut 28:53-57 : 53 Because of the suffering your enemy inflicts upon you during the siege, you will eat the fruit of your womb—the flesh of your sons and daughters whom the LORD your God has given you. 54 Even the most tender and refined man among you will begrudge his brother, the wife he embraces, and the rest of his children who are still alive. 55 He will not share with any of them the flesh of his children that he is eating, because he has nothing else during the suffering and siege that your enemy will inflict on all your cities. 56 The most tender and delicate woman among you, so refined that she would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground, will begrudge the husband she loves, her son, and her daughter. 57 She will secretly eat her afterbirth and the children she bears during the siege and suffering that your enemy inflicts upon your cities, because she is in dire need of food.
- 2 Kgs 6:26-29 : 26 As the king of Israel was walking along the city wall, a woman cried out to him, saying, "Help me, my lord the king!" 27 He answered, "If the LORD does not help you, where can I get help for you? From the threshing floor or the winepress?" 28 Then the king asked her, "What is your problem?" She replied, "This woman said to me, 'Give me your son so we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.' 29 So we cooked my son and ate him. The next day, I said to her, 'Give me your son so we may eat him,' but she had hidden her son."
- Lam 3:48 : 48 Streams of water run down from my eyes because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.
- Lam 4:3 : 3 Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young; but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like ostriches in the wilderness.
- Ezek 5:10 : 10 Therefore, fathers will eat their sons among you, and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments on you and scatter all your survivors to every wind.
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- Lam 2:20-212 verses78%
20 Look, LORD, and consider: Whom have you ever treated like this? Should women eat their own children, the little ones they have cherished? Should priest and prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
21 Young and old lie together in the dust of the streets; my young women and young men have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of your anger; you have slaughtered them without pity.
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3 You eat the flesh of my people, strip off their skin, break their bones, and chop them up like meat for the pot, like flesh in a cauldron.
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9 Those slain by the sword are better off than those dying of hunger, wasting away, pierced by lack of the fruits of the field.
- Lam 2:11-122 verses77%
11 My eyes are worn out from weeping, my inner being is in turmoil; my heart is poured out on the ground because of the destruction of my people, as children and infants faint in the streets of the city.
12 They cry out to their mothers, 'Where is the bread and the wine?' as they faint like the wounded in the streets of the city, and as they breathe their last in their mothers’ arms.
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9 I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another's flesh because of the siege and distress that their enemies and those who seek their lives will impose on them.
- Deut 28:55-573 verses76%
55 He will not share with any of them the flesh of his children that he is eating, because he has nothing else during the suffering and siege that your enemy will inflict on all your cities.
56 The most tender and delicate woman among you, so refined that she would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground, will begrudge the husband she loves, her son, and her daughter.
57 She will secretly eat her afterbirth and the children she bears during the siege and suffering that your enemy inflicts upon your cities, because she is in dire need of food.
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11 The LORD has exhausted His wrath and poured out His fierce anger; He kindled a fire in Zion, consuming its foundations.
- Lam 4:3-64 verses76%
3 Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young; but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like ostriches in the wilderness.
4 The tongue of the nursing infant clings to the roof of its mouth because of thirst. The children beg for bread, but no one gives it to them.
5 Those who once feasted on delicacies now lie desolate in the streets; those who were brought up in fine crimson embrace ash heaps.
6 The iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the sin of Sodom, which was overthrown in a moment, with no hand turned to help her.
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21 So give their children over to famine; hand them over to the power of the sword. Let their wives become childless and widowed, and let their men die by deadly disease; let their young men be struck down in battle.
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29 You will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters.
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31 I hear a cry like that of a woman in labor, anguish like a woman giving birth to her first child—the cry of Daughter Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands: 'Woe is me! My life is fainting before the killers.'
- Ezek 16:20-212 verses74%
20 You even took the sons and daughters you bore to me and sacrificed them to the idols as food. Was your prostitution not enough?
21 You slaughtered my children and offered them up by making them pass through fire to these idols.
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18 Their bows will strike down the young men; they will show no mercy to the offspring of the womb, nor will they pity children.
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10 They exposed her nakedness, seized her sons and daughters, and killed her with the sword. She became a byword among women, and they carried out judgment against her.
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11 Women in Zion were violated, virgins in the cities of Judah.
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10 Yet she went into exile, carried away into captivity. Her infants were dashed to pieces at every street corner. Lots were cast for her nobles, and all her great men were bound in chains.
- 2 Kgs 6:28-292 verses74%
28 Then the king asked her, "What is your problem?" She replied, "This woman said to me, 'Give me your son so we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.'
29 So we cooked my son and ate him. The next day, I said to her, 'Give me your son so we may eat him,' but she had hidden her son."
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19 These double calamities have come upon you—destruction and devastation, famine and sword. Who will console you?
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16 Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses will be plundered, and their wives will be violated.
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9 You drive the women of my people out of their pleasant homes. You take away my splendor from their children forever.
- Jer 15:8-92 verses73%
8 Their widows have increased to Me more than the sand of the seas. I have brought against them a destroyer at noon, and I have caused anguish and terror to fall upon the city suddenly.
9 The mother of seven has grown weak and faint; she has breathed her last. Her sun has set while it was still day; she has been disgraced and humiliated. And the remnant of them I will deliver to the sword in the presence of their enemies,' declares the LORD.
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20 'For death has climbed in through our windows and entered our fortresses, cutting off children from the streets and young men from the public squares.'
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16 And the people to whom they are prophesying will be thrown into the streets of Jerusalem because of famine and sword. There will be no one to bury them—them, their wives, their sons, or their daughters. I will pour out their wickedness upon them.
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12 My people! Children oppress you, and women rule over you. Your guides mislead you and destroy the way of your paths.
- Jer 16:3-42 verses72%
3 For this is what the LORD says about the sons and daughters born in this place, as well as their mothers who bear them and their fathers who father them in this land:
4 They will die from deadly diseases. They will not be mourned or buried but will lie like dung on the ground. They will perish by the sword and famine, and their corpses will be food for the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth.
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7 Now therefore, thus says the LORD, the God of Hosts, the God of Israel: Why are you doing such great harm to yourselves, cutting off from Judah man, woman, child, and infant, leaving yourselves without any remnant?
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53 Because of the suffering your enemy inflicts upon you during the siege, you will eat the fruit of your womb—the flesh of your sons and daughters whom the LORD your God has given you.
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14 the roar of battle will rise against your people, and all your fortresses will be devastated—as Shalman destroyed Beth Arbel on the day of battle, when mothers were dashed to pieces with their children.
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10 Therefore, fathers will eat their sons among you, and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments on you and scatter all your survivors to every wind.
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2 They deprive the poor of justice and rob the rights of the needy among my people, making widows their spoil and leaving orphans to be plundered.
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26 O daughter of my people, put on sackcloth and roll in ashes; mourn as for an only son, with bitter lamentation, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.
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11 All her people groan as they search for bread; they trade their treasures for food to stay alive. "Look, LORD, and consider, for I am despised."
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12 Even if they raise their children, I will bereave them of every one. Woe to them when I turn away from them!
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11 When its boughs are dry, they are broken; women come and light them on fire. For this is a people without understanding; therefore, their Maker will not have compassion on them, and their Creator will not show them favor.
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18 The children gather wood, the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead dough to make cakes for the Queen of Heaven. They pour out drink offerings to other gods, provoking me to anger.
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7 Within you, they have treated father and mother with contempt; they have oppressed the foreigner in your midst; they have wronged the orphan and the widow.
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37 For they have committed adultery and blood is on their hands. They committed adultery with their idols; they even sacrificed their children, whom they bore to me, passing them through the fire as food for their idols.
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20 Manasseh devours Ephraim, and Ephraim devours Manasseh; together they turn against Judah. Yet for all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still stretched out.