10 The hands of the (A)compassionate women
Have [a]cooked their (B)own children;
They became (C)food for them
In the destruction of the daughter of my people.

11 The Lord has fulfilled His fury,
(D)He has poured out His fierce anger.
(E)He kindled a fire in Zion,
And it has devoured its foundations.

12 The kings of the earth,
And all inhabitants of the world,
Would not have believed
That the adversary and the enemy
Could (F)enter the gates of Jerusalem—

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 4:10 boiled

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