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Lamentations 4:10
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KJ21
The hands of the pitying 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.
AMP
The hands of compassionate women Boiled their own children; They became food for them Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people [Judah].
AMPC
The hands of [heretofore] compassionate women have boiled their own children; they were their food during the destruction of the daughter of my people [Judah].
BRG
The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
CSB
The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children; they became their food during the destruction of my dear people.
CSBA
The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children; they became their food during the destruction of my dear people.
CEB
The hands of loving women boiled their own children to become their food during the destruction of the daughter of my people.
CJB
With their own hands compassionate women have cooked their own children; their children became their food when the daughter of my people was destroyed.
CEV
Life in the city is so bad that loving mothers have boiled and eaten their own children.
DARBY
The hands of pitiful women have boiled their own children: they were their meat in the ruin of the daughter of my people.
DRA
Jod. The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
ERV
Then even nice women cooked their own children. The children were food for their mothers. This happened when my people were destroyed.
EASY
Women who once were very kind have boiled their own children. Their children became their food, when the enemies were destroying the city.
EHV
The hands of compassionate women boiled their children. Their children became their food when the daughter of my people was broken.
ESV
The hands of compassionate women have boiled their own children; they became their food during the destruction of the daughter of my people.
ESVUK
The hands of compassionate women have boiled their own children; they became their food during the destruction of the daughter of my people.
EXB
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].
GNV
The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children, which were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
GW
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⌟.
GNT
The disaster that came to my people brought horror; loving mothers boiled their own children for food.
HCSB
The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children; they became their food during the destruction of my dear people.
ICB
With their own hands kind women cooked their own children. The children became food for their parents. This happened when my people were destroyed.
ISV
With their own hands, compassionate women boil their own children— they become their food— when my beloved people were destroyed.
JUB
The hands of the compassionate women have cooked their own children; they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
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.
AKJV
The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
LSB
The hands of compassionate women Boiled their own children; They became food for them Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.
LEB
The hands of compassionate women, have cooked their children; they became as something to eat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
TLB
Tenderhearted women have cooked and eaten their own children; thus they survived the siege.
MSG
Nice and kindly women boiled their own children for supper. This was the only food in town when my dear people were broken.
MEV
The hands of compassionate women have boiled their own children; they became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
NOG
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.
NABRE
The hands of compassionate women have boiled their own children! They became their food when the daughter of my people was shattered.
NASB
The hands of compassionate women Boiled their own children; They became food for them Due to the destruction of the daughter of my people.
NASB1995
The hands of compassionate women Boiled their own children; They became food for them Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.
NCB
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,
NCV
With their own hands kind women cook their own children. They became food when my people were destroyed.
NET
The hands of tenderhearted women cooked their own children, who became their food, when my people were destroyed.
NIRV
With their own hands, loving mothers have had to cook even their own children. They ate their children when my people were destroyed.
NIV
With their own hands compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food when my people were destroyed.
NIVUK
With their own hands compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food when my people were destroyed.
NKJV
The hands of the compassionate women Have cooked their own children; They became food for them In the destruction of the daughter of my people.
NLV
Women who had shown loving-kindness have boiled their own children for food, because my people are destroyed.
NLT
Tenderhearted women have cooked their own children. They have eaten them to survive the siege.
NRSVA
The hands of compassionate women have boiled their own children; they became their food in the destruction of my people.
NRSVACE
The hands of compassionate women have boiled their own children; they became their food in the destruction of my people.
NRSVCE
The hands of compassionate women have boiled their own children; they became their food in the destruction of my people.
NRSVUE
The hands of compassionate women have boiled their own children; they became their food in the destruction of my people.
OJB
The hands of the pitiful nashim have cooked their own yeladim; they were their meat in the destruction of the Bat Ami.
RGT
The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children, which were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
RSV
The hands of compassionate women have boiled their own children; they became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
RSVCE
The hands of compassionate women have boiled their own children; they became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
TLV
The hands of compassionate women boiled their own children. They became their food when the daughter of my people were destroyed.
VOICE
Just imagine the injustice: loving mothers are forced to cook their babies’ flesh. Children have become their food! All because of 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.
WYC
The hands of merciful women seethed their children; they were made the meats of those women in the sorrow of the daughter of my people. (The hands of merciful women boiled their own children; they were made the food for those women in the horror of the wounding 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.
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