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Lamentations 4:10

The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

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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.

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.

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11 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
יְדֵ֗יye.Dei[the] hands ofH3027 →
נָשִׁים֙na.ShimwomenH802 →
רַחֲמָ֣נִיּ֔וֹתra.cha.Ma.ni.YotcompassionateH7362 →
בִּשְּׁל֖וּbi.she.Luthey have boiledH1310 →
יַלְדֵיהֶ֑ןyal.dei.Henown children theirH3206 →
הָי֤וּha.Yuthey have beenH1961 →
לְבָרוֹת֙le.va.rOtfor eatingH1262 →
לָ֔מוֹla.mofor them
בְּשֶׁ֖בֶרbe.She.verin [the] brokenness ofH7667 →
בַּת־bat-[the] daughter ofH1323 →
עַמִּֽי׃ ס'a.Mipeople myH5971 →

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Deuteronomy 28:53Then you will eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you.Isaiah 49:15“Can a woman forget her nursing child, or lack compassion for the son of her womb? Even if she could forget, I will not forget you!2 Kings 6:26–29As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, “Help me, my lord the king!”Lamentations 2:20Look, O LORD, and consider: Whom have You ever treated like this? Should women eat their offspring, the infants they have nurtured? Should priests and prophets be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?Jeremiah 19:9I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh in the siege and distress inflicted on them by their enemies who seek their lives.’Matthew 24:19How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers!Luke 21:23How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers! For there will be great distress upon the land and wrath against this people.Ezekiel 5:10As a result, fathers among you will eat their sons, and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments against you and scatter all your remnant to every wind.’Leviticus 26:29You will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters.Lamentations 3:48Streams of tears flow from my eyes over the destruction of the daughter of my people.Lamentations 4:3Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young, but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like an ostrich in the wilderness.2 Kings 6:28Then the king asked her, “What is the matter?” And she answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give up your son, that we may eat him, and tomorrow we will eat my son.’Mark 13:17How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers!Jeremiah 15:9The mother of seven will grow faint; she will breathe her last breath. Her sun will set while it is still day; she will be disgraced and humiliated. And the rest I will put to the sword in the presence of their enemies,” declares the LORD.Ezekiel 16:5No one cared enough for you to do even one of these things out of compassion for you. Instead, you were thrown out into the open field, because you were despised on the day of your birth.Isaiah 9:20They carve out what is on the right, but they are still hungry; they eat what is on the left, but they are still not satisfied. Each one devours the flesh of his own offspring.Jeremiah 6:26O daughter of my people, dress yourselves in sackcloth and roll in ashes. Mourn with bitter wailing, as you would for an only son, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.Deuteronomy 28:53–57Then you will eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you.

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People Mourn over the Destruction of Jerusalem — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
People Mourn over the Destruction of Jerusalem — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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