Lamentations 4:10

10 The disaster that came to my people brought horror; 1 loving mothers boiled their own children for food.

Lamentations 4:10 In-Context

8 Now they lie unknown in the streets, their faces blackened in death; their skin, dry as wood, has shriveled on their bones.
9 Those who died in the war were better off than those who died later, who starved slowly to death, with no food to keep them alive.
10 The disaster that came to my people brought horror; loving mothers boiled their own children for food.
11 The Lord turned loose the full force of his fury; he lit a fire in Zion that burned it to the ground.
12 No one anywhere, not even rulers of foreign nations, believed that any invader could enter Jerusalem's gates.

Cross References 1

  • 1. 4.10Deuteronomy 28.57;Ezekiel 5.10.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.