Lamentations 4:10-12

New Catholic Bible

¹⁰ With their own hands, compassionate women
    have boiled their own children;
those offspring became their food
    when my people were on the verge of extinction,
¹¹ The Lord let his blazing anger pour forth
    and gave full vent to his wrath
as he kindled a fire in Zion
    that devoured her foundations.
¹² The kings of the earth never believed,
    nor did any of the inhabitants of the world,
that any adversary or enemy
    could ever penetrate the gates of Jerusalem.