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Lamentations 4:10

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י (Yod)

4:10The hands of tenderhearted women36

cooked their own children,

who became their food,37

when my people38 were destroyed.39

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Footnotes

  1. 36 Heb “the hands of compassionate women.”
  2. 37 Heb “eating.” The infinitive construct (from I בָּרָה, barah) is translated as a noun. Three passages employ the verb (2 Sam 3:35; 12:17; 13:5, 6, 10) for eating when ill or in mourning.
  3. 38 Heb “the daughter of my people.”
  4. 39 Heb “in the destruction of the daughter of my people.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish 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.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

With their own hands compassionate women

have cooked their own children,

who became their food

when my people were destroyed.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

The hands of compassionate women

have cooked their own children;

they became their food

during the destruction of my dear people.

NLTNew Living Translation

Tenderhearted women

have cooked their own children.

They have eaten them

to survive the siege.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

The hands of compassionate women,

have cooked their children;

they became as something to eat

in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

KJV 1900King James 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.