Lamentations 4:10
The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.In other versions
The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
ASV
The hands of kind-hearted women have been boiling their children; they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
BBE
The hands of pitiful women have boiled their own children: they were their meat in the ruin of the daughter of my people.
DBY
The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
WEB
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.
YLT
The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
ENG
The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children: they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
WBT
The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
BSB
In context
8Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.
9They 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.
10The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
11The 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.
12The 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.