Lamentations 4:10
Lamentations chapter 4 · verse 10 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
KJV
King James Version · 1611The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Context
v.9They that are slain with the sword are better than they that are slain with hunger; For these pine away, stricken through, for want of the fruits of the field.
v.10This passage
v.11Jehovah hath accomplished his wrath, he hath poured out his fierce anger; And he hath kindled a fire in Zion, which hath devoured the foundations thereof.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Isaiah 49:15
Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, these may forget, yet will not I forget thee.
- Lamentations 4:3
Even the jackals draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: The daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
- 2 Kings 6:26
And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman unto him, saying, Help, my lord, O king.
- Lamentations 2:20
See, O Jehovah, and behold to whom thou hast done thus! Shall the women eat their fruit, the children that are dandled in the hands? Shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?
- Jeremiah 19:9
And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters; and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend, in the siege and in the distress, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their life, shall distress them.
- Lamentations 3:48
Mine eye runneth down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.