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10 With their own hands ·kind [compassionate] women
    ·cook [boil] their own children.
They became food
    when ·my [L the daughter of my] people were ·destroyed [fractured; broken; Deut. 28:56–57].

11 The Lord turned loose all of his anger;
    he poured out his ·strong [L hot] anger.
He set fire to ·Jerusalem [L Zion; C the location of the Temple; Ps. 74:4–7],
    ·burning it down to the [L consuming its] foundations.

12 Kings of the earth and ·people [L the inhabitants] of the world
    could not believe
that enemies and foes
    could enter the gates of Jerusalem [C since God had made his presence known there; Ps. 48:1–2].

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