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Lamentations 4:10
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Lamentations 4:10
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The disaster that came to my people brought horror;
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loving mothers boiled their own children for food.
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Now they lie unknown in the streets, their faces blackened in death; their skin, dry as wood, has shriveled on their bones.
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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.
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The disaster that came to my people brought horror; loving mothers boiled their own children for food.
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The Lord turned loose the full force of his fury; he lit a fire in Zion that burned it to the ground.
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No one anywhere, not even rulers of foreign nations, believed that any invader could enter Jerusalem's gates.
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4.10
Deuteronomy 28.57
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Ezekiel 5.10
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Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.