Lamentations 4:10
New International Version
With their own hands compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food when my people were destroyed.

New Living Translation
Tenderhearted women have cooked their own children. They have eaten them to survive the siege.

English Standard Version
The hands of compassionate women have boiled their own children; they became their food during the destruction of the daughter of my people.

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

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

New King James Version
The hands of the compassionate women Have cooked their own children; They became food for them In the destruction of the daughter of my people.

New American Standard Bible
The hands of compassionate women Boiled their own children; They became food for them Due to the destruction of the daughter of my people.

NASB 1995
The hands of compassionate women Boiled their own children; They became food for them Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.

NASB 1977
The hands of compassionate women Boiled their own children; They became food for them Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Legacy Standard Bible
The hands of compassionate women Boiled their own children; They became food for them Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Amplified Bible
The hands of compassionate women Boiled their own children; They became food for them Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people [Judah].

Christian Standard Bible
The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children; they became their food during the destruction of my dear people.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children; they became their food during the destruction of my dear 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.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Yodh The hands of loving women boiled their children, and they were food for them in the breaking of the daughter of my people

Brenton Septuagint Translation
JOD. The hands of tender-hearted women have sodden their own children: they became meat for them in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Contemporary English Version
Life in the city is so bad that loving mothers have boiled and eaten their own children.

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

English Revised 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.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The hands of loving mothers cooked their own children. The children were used for food by my people when they were being destroyed [by a blockade].

Good News Translation
The disaster that came to my people brought horror; loving mothers boiled their own children for food.

International Standard Version
With their own hands, compassionate women boil their own children— they become their food— when my beloved people were destroyed.

JPS Tanakh 1917
The hands of women full of compassion Have sodden their own children; They were their food In the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Literal Standard Version
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.

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

New American Bible
The hands of compassionate women have boiled their own children! They became their food when the daughter of my people was shattered.

NET Bible
The hands of tenderhearted women cooked their own children, who became their food, when my people were destroyed.

New Revised Standard Version
The hands of compassionate women have boiled their own children; they became their food in the destruction of my people.

New Heart English Bible
The hands of the compassionate women have cooked their own children; they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Webster's Bible Translation
The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children: they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

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.

Young's Literal Translation
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.

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Context
The Distress of Zion
9Those slain by the sword are better off than those who die of hunger, who waste away, pierced with pain because the fields lack produce. 10The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people. 11The LORD has exhausted His wrath; He has poured out His fierce anger; He has kindled a fire in Zion, and it has consumed her foundations.…

Cross References
Leviticus 26:29
You will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters.

Deuteronomy 28:53
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.

Deuteronomy 28:56
The most gentle and refined woman among you, so gentle and refined she would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground, will begrudge the husband she embraces and her son and daughter

Deuteronomy 28:57
the afterbirth that comes from between her legs and the children she bears, because she will secretly eat them for lack of anything else in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you within your gates.

2 Kings 6:29
So we boiled my son and ate him, and the next day I said to her, 'Give up your son, that we may eat him.' But she had hidden her son."

2 Kings 25:3
By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food.

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.'


Treasury of Scripture

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

hands

Lamentations 4:3
Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.

Lamentations 2:20
Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?

2 Kings 6:26-29
And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman unto him, saying, Help, my lord, O king…

pitiful

Isaiah 49:15
Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.

in

Lamentations 3:48
Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Deuteronomy 28:56,57
The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter, …

2 Kings 6:29
So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she hath hid her son.

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Lamentations 4
1. Zion bewails her pitiful estate
13. She confesses her sins
21. Edom is threatened and Zion comforted.














(10) The hands of the pitiful women.--See Note on Lamentations 2:20.

Verse 10. - The pitiful women. Strange contrast between the compassionate nature of woman (comp. Isaiah 49:15) and the dread horrors of this moral as well as physical catastrophe (comp. note on Lamentations 2:20).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
The hands
יְדֵ֗י (yə·ḏê)
Noun - fdc
Strong's 3027: A hand

of compassionate
רַחֲמָ֣נִיּ֔וֹת (ra·ḥă·mā·nî·yō·wṯ)
Adjective - feminine plural
Strong's 7362: Compassionate

women
נָשִׁים֙ (nā·šîm)
Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 802: Woman, wife, female

have cooked
בִּשְּׁל֖וּ (biš·šə·lū)
Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 1310: To boil up, cooking, to ripen

their own children,
יַלְדֵיהֶ֑ן (yal·ḏê·hen)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine plural
Strong's 3206: Something born, a lad, offspring

who became
הָי֤וּ (hā·yū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

their food
לְבָרוֹת֙ (lə·ḇā·rō·wṯ)
Preposition-l | Verb - Piel - Infinitive construct
Strong's 1262: To select, to feed, to render clear

in the destruction
בְּשֶׁ֖בֶר (bə·še·ḇer)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 7667: A breaking, fracture, crushing, breach, crash

of the daughter
בַּת־ (baṯ-)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 1323: A daughter

of my people.
עַמִּֽי׃ (‘am·mî)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 5971: A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock


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