Lamentations 4:10

Modern

The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Traditional

The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Literal

The hands of compassionate women have boiled their own children; they became food for them in this destruction of the daughter of my people!

Latin

Manus mulierum misericordium coxerunt filios suos; facti sunt cibus earum in contritione filiæ populi mei.

Hebrew

English

The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Although God’s people still experience his judgment, they will soon experience restoration.

Theme notes and profiles

Lamentations 2:20
Look, O LORD, and consider: Whom have You ever treated like this? Should women eat their offspring, the infants they have nurtured? Should priests and prophets be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
Isaiah 49:15
“Can a woman forget her nursing child, or lack compassion for the son of her womb? Even if she could forget, I will not forget you!
2 Kings 6:26–29
As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, “Help me, my lord the king!”
Jeremiah 19:9
I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh in the siege and distress inflicted on them by their enemies who seek their lives.’
Lamentations 4:3
Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young, but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like an ostrich in the wilderness.
Lamentations 3:48
Streams of tears flow from my eyes over the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Ezekiel 5:10
As a result, fathers among you will eat their sons, and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments against you and scatter all your remnant to every wind.’
Leviticus 26:29
You will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters.
Deuteronomy 28:53–57
Then you will eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you.