Lamentations 4:10 Parallel Translations

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.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

ASV:

The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

BBE:

The hands of kind-hearted women have been boiling their children; they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

DBY:

The hands of pitiful women have boiled their own children: they were their meat in the ruin of the daughter of my people.

ERV:

The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children; they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

JPS:

The hands of women full of compassion have sodden their own children; they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

WBS:

The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children: they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

WEB:

The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

YLT:

The hands of merciful women have boiled their own children, They have been for food to them, In the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Lamentations 4:10 Cross References

XREF:

Leviticus 26:29 'Further, you will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters you will eat.

Deuteronomy 28:53 "Then you shall eat the offspring of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters whom the LORD your God has given you, during the siege and the distress by which your enemy will oppress you.

Deuteronomy 28:57 and toward her afterbirth which issues from between her legs and toward her children whom she bears; for she will eat them secretly for lack of anything else, during the siege and the distress by which your enemy will oppress you in your towns.

2 Kings 6:29 "So we boiled my son and ate him; and I said to her on the next day, 'Give your son, that we may eat him'; but she has hidden her son."

Jeremiah 19:9 "I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they will eat one another's flesh in the siege and in the distress with which their enemies and those who seek their life will distress them."'

Lamentations 2:20 See, O LORD, and look! With whom have You dealt thus? Should women eat their offspring, The little ones who were born healthy? Should priest and prophet be slain In the sanctuary of the Lord?

Ezekiel 5:10 Therefore, fathers will eat their sons among you, and sons will eat their fathers; for I will execute judgments on you and scatter all your remnant to every wind. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

MHC:

4:1-12 What a change is here! Sin tarnishes the beauty of the most exalted powers and the most excellent gifts; but that gold, tried in the fire, which Christ bestows, never will be taken from us; its outward appearance may be dimmed, but its real value can never be changed. The horrors of the siege and destruction of Jerusalem are again described. Beholding the sad consequences of sin in the church of old, let us seriously consider to what the same causes may justly bring down the church now. But, Lord, though we have gone from thee in rebellion, yet turn to us, and turn our hearts to thee, that we may fear thy name. Come to us, bless us with awakening, converting, renewing, confirming grace.

CONC:

Boiled Boiling Compassion Compassionate Cooked Daughter Destroyed Destruction Full Hands Kind-hearted Meat Merciful Pitiful Ruin Sodden Women

Boiled Boiling Children Compassion Compassionate Cooked Daughter Destroyed Destruction Food Full Hands Kind-Hearted Meat Merciful Pitiful Ruin Sodden Women

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