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.”
King James Version (KJV)
🌐 Lamentations 4:10 in 8 Translations
King James Version (KJV)English
The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
American Standard Version (ASV)English
The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Open English Bible (OEB)English
Elberfelder Bibel (ELB)Deutsch
Die Hände barmherziger Weiber haben ihre Kinder gekocht; sie wurden ihnen zur Speise bei der Zertrümmerung der Tochter meines Volkes.
Reina-Valera (RV)Español
Las manos de las mujeres piadosas cocieron á sus hijos; fuéronles comida en el quebrantamiento de la hija de mi pueblo.
Bíblia Livre (BL)Português
As mãos das mulheres compassivas cozeram a seus filhos; serviram-lhes de comida na destruição da filha de meu povo.
Nova Versão (NVA)Português
As mãos de mulheres compassivas cozinharam seus próprios filhos; eles foram seu alimento no tempo em que a filha do meu povo estava sendo destruída.
📖 Lamentations 4:10 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.
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