Lamentations 4:10
Lamentations 4:10 — The New International Version (NIV)
10 With their own hands compassionate women
have cooked their own children,
who became their food
when my people were destroyed.
Lamentations 4:10 — English Standard Version (ESV)
10 The hands of compassionate women
have boiled their own children;
they became their food
during the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Lamentations 4:10 — King James Version (KJV 1900)
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.
Lamentations 4:10 — New Living Translation (NLT)
10 Tenderhearted women
have cooked their own children.
They have eaten them
to survive the siege.
Lamentations 4:10 — The New King James Version (NKJV)
10 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.
Lamentations 4:10 — New Century Version (NCV)
10 With their own hands kind women
cook their own children.
They became food
when my people were destroyed.
Lamentations 4:10 — American Standard Version (ASV)
10 The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children;
They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Lamentations 4:10 — 1890 Darby Bible (DARBY)
10 The hands of pitiful women have boiled their own children: they were their meat in the ruin of the daughter of my people.
Lamentations 4:10 — GOD’S WORD Translation (GW)
10 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⸥.
Lamentations 4:10 — The Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)
10 The hands of compassionate women
have cooked their own children;
they became their food
during the destruction of my dear people.
Lamentations 4:10 — The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)
10 The hands of compassionate women
have boiled their own children;
they became their food
in the destruction of my people.
Lamentations 4:10 — The Lexham English Bible (LEB)
10 The hands of compassionate women,
have cooked their children;
they became as something to eat
in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Lamentations 4:10 — New International Reader’s Version (1998) (NIrV)
10 With their own hands, loving mothers
have had to cook even their own children.
They ate their children
when my people were destroyed.